The video tells about 3 ways to collect birch sap. Harvest the birch sap without damaging the trees. And also learn how and when they collect birch sap. and maple.
The first two methods are good both for collecting birch juice and for maple juice. The third is more suitable for birch.
The first to start flowing maple juice. If the snow begins to melt, the maple man will soon start to drip. Maple juice is sweeter than birch. If you do not plan to make maple syrup, then do not harvest much. It is not stored for a long time and turns into a jelly.
For the preparation in the first way, you will need a knife, a plastic bottle for one to two liters and a piece of cord or wire. If you cut off a birch branch, the juice will begin to flow from the cut. Put the bottle on the branch and secure it with a cord or a wire.
The second method is suitable for adult trees.
You will need a screwdriver, rubber or silicone tube and plastic containers for collecting juice.
Drill the hole at a height of about 1 meter from the ground and a depth of not more than 5 centimeters.
The tube should be a few tenths of a millimeter larger than the hole in order to avoid leakage of juice past.
To the container with juice did not get moisture and insects in the lid, you can drill a hole and pass a tube through it. Do not tighten the lid tightly. Through the thread must go out the air. Otherwise, the juice will not go into the bottle.
The third method involves collecting a juice from fresh birch stumps. Certainly next to you somewhere recently felled wood. You need to find a stump to carve an ax or chisel hole in the shape of a bowl and the juice will soon fill it.
The larger the diameter of the stump, the more juice will run.
Sap flow is completed with bud budding.
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