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Cut a branch off a Birch tree and watch it run like a tap in early Spring when the buds are forming.

 

My son tapped a large silver birch, collected the sap and boiled it down to make syrup. When the leaf buds are just opening, they do run like a tap.

 

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Cut a branch off a Birch tree and watch it run like a tap in early Spring when the buds are forming.

 

The buds actually form in the Autumn, the fatten and open in spring.

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The volume of sap is constant throughout the year , it just moves more in the growing season than it does when dormant ,the chemical make up ( sugars ) will vary throughout the year as well . Green wood weights of a given volume do not really vary from the growing and dormant season .

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