Does Collecting Maple Sap Hurt the Tree?

[@jlee7811]

My favorite part of this is during the finger/tree comparison where it says “not to scale”

[@paddyv03]

Glenn ? I thought Negan killed you

[@magg5155]

Trinh Hoang Viet nahh

[@tasha3757]

That's one GIANT finger!

[@paulojose7060]

Making a hole on a tree. Woody woodpecker has been taken into custody.

[@giannipuface9441]

@@tasha3757 maybe it's a tiny tree

[@chwanttv]

Short answer: Yes but actually no

[@yeeyw]

More short Yesn't

[@SoldierD-]

Lol

[@ladofthedamned7796]

Fair enough.

[@NukeNukedEarth]

I'm pretty sure its like putting a needle inside a human and taking blood with it, it ''hurts'' us but it won't affect us that much

[@PrimusPicklebal]

“Well yes but actually no”

[@chaseallen7192]

“Does collecting maple sap hurt the tree?” Me at 3 in the morning: *sigh* idk KZbin, does it? *clicks on video*

[@DeckyMass]

All of us Allen it happens to all of us including me

[@GeneralChrisGaming]

Damn its 3:30am when i startes the video lmaooooo

[@josanikik]

That is uncanny.

[@bobobskerpan]

This too accurate. LOL

[@honeyjar2970]

1:30 am here, but yes. Also, hi everyone else who sees this, hope your beds are comfy

[@victorybeginsinthegarden]

this is the most Canadian video you have ever made 😂😂😂

[@BackToReality]

Lol, I think you might be right. ;)

[@ShalomKnits]

Victory Begins in the Garden And he has the most Canadian voice to go with it. CBC Radio worthy. 🙂

[@bensladkov6780]

Victory Begins in the Garden Why?

[@MrGollum1996]

Ben Ben Its about maple syrup, and its about being friendly (to plants). So two stereotypical things canadians tend to be/have/love.

[@Blaineworld]

Xd

[@__WJK__]

When you think about it, tapping a maple tree for syrup is not all that different (or harmful) than "tapping" people for blood or plasma.

[@sailingsolar]

"Not all that different." Plasma on waffles? Now that's different.

[@niccatipay]

Fun fact: Blood can replace eggs during baking due to their similar structure and reactions. Also fun fact: Someone out there made a blood cake... and you might be his lucky customer.

[@__WJK__]

@@niccatipay - Even if true... think I'll stick with all the other (non-blood based) egg substitutes that are readily available. On a side note, coconut water can be (and has been) used in extreme emergency situations as a substitute for plasma(!)

[@framegrace1]

@@niccatipay There's a Fried Blood dish in Spain, they say it's delicious (Looks like a dark Flan). (Never had the guts to try it :) )

[@benf7692]

But did you watch the video? Because he explained how it actually is different...

[@tameronica]

_Stabs person_ "Sorry, man. I just need some human juice."

[@emeraldz6744]

This comment is cursed

[@ainain8821]

Its not hurt when they are dead

[@Sick_Weeb]

Yummy tasty blood syrup

[@michka841]

That’s basically how a blood donation works

[@iska699]

69th laik

[@Umirua]

Me: I really have to study KZbin at 01:00 : "Does Collecting Maple Sap Hurt the Tree?"

[@DivineBeaver]

I got a book seminar tommorow but you know... priorities right?

[@edrienmanzanero4081]

Hmmm yes why not

[@lancerhalsey4816]

I'm literally a hour short from one of my midterms yet here I am.

[@TaigiTWeseDiplomat--Formosan]

Drop the study.

[@atulit]

Exactly same just my timing was 2:50 am

[@khag.]

Does drawing a blood donation hurt the donor? Yes, but...

[@tuyiren781]

@DA O7 I don't know if you are being sarcastic as the original post is slightly joking at the fact how pointless the video really is since the answer is obvious as you do a simple comparison.

[@ProAverageGuy]

@@tuyiren781 guess he was serious..

[@narakarrarr6191]

Mmm... We have blood donors to save lives we tap trees for tasty syrup..... So equal importance metaphor checks out.

[@really7046]

Narakarr arr ah yes, save plants 2020, as you eat away your fruits, carbohydrates; other assortment of plants that which does arguablly more damage.

[@Toma58.]

@@narakarrarr6191 why does the end goal matter? As long as the procedure is similar i think the metaphor is on equal level.

[@kjeldschouten-lebbing6260]

There are special waxes that can be used to seal the damaged sections in the bark (also used when splicing trees for example), that might help in this case.

[@ElectricityTaster]

The problem with those is that they rarely form a perfect seal and can trap moisture in the wound, which can cause more decay faster. The best thing you can do is make a smaller diameter hole.

[@kjeldschouten-lebbing6260]

@@ElectricityTaster Yeah I know it's kinda a hot topic (also with splicing trees)...

[@GentlesirGibbles]

@@ElectricityTaster Can a grafting or cloning gel be applied to the area to encourage new growth, or are a majority of those solutions for generating new root cells? Alternatively, what viability is there in grafting a new branch/bark section to the area, to encourage new growth?

[@palco22]

could some kind of maple dowel be used to plug the hole at the end of season ?

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@GentlesirGibbles In theory yes, that could help somewhat, as decay is sealed off faster if there is a branch nearby. Worth a try, but I would do the graft under the hole and leave the hole open to the air. However, if the canopy is dense, the graft will likely die due to shading from above. I don't know how effective gels applied to this sort of wound will be to make the cambium grow faster and seal off the wound, but I'm sceptical. Good watering and mulching so the tree is in optimal growing conditions will make the cambium grow as fast as possible.

[@brianletts4899]

Tapped my first trees (3) this year and made syrup - YEAH. After all the time and labour, now I know why syrup is so expensive to buy :)

[@BackToReality]

I hear ya! lol So worth the trouble though.

[@Banzybanz]

Time and labour in growing the trees? Is it a difficult tree to raise?

[@fizban7]

@@Banzybanz It takes an incredible amount of sap to turn into syrup. It takes 20-50 gallons of sap to produce ONE gallon of syrup. Removing the water is the most laborious process, but producers also have to set up thousands of taps a year. I myself had 4 taps, and carrying heavy buckets of sap around snow is really tricky, haha. It was fun though. I used some sap to produce Beer!

[@michaelbankart916]

@@fizban7 To produce beer? wow, sounds really good. I'd love to know how and where you incorporated the sap into the recipe?

[@alyl603]

@@BackToReality/videos Would it help the tree if once a tap is removed, you insert a clean wooden dowel from the same material or somehow seal the entrance hole?

[@Palladium_505]

I love every video you put out. This is all you should do in your free time!! The illustrations, the lessons, the tone and countenance of your voice, the friendliness in your face and eyes and the cheerful joy of your wife, make these short videos a joy! Thank you so much for making these. ☺️

[@BackToReality]

Oh my goodness, Cathie. Thanks so much for your wonderful comment! :)

[@fantomet78]

I agree, make more and this channel will grow big! I really enjoy your videos and since you are almost/or at the same parallell as me it is most useful! My best regards from Sweden!

[@wes9451]

@@BackToReality She has a point you would have huge channel but you only post every blue moon or so. Then again you dont see me posting anything so who am i to talk.

[@supermojo9672]

Yes , it mildly hurts the tree. That s what you tappe different tree from a year To another. Rotation is the key.

[@AmelieHarms]

That's what I was going to ask! I knew that you can't tap the same birch year after year but have to give them time to recuperate between tappings. We also need to plug the hole after tapping (otherwise it'll keep bleeding the whole summer), but it seems that's not needed for sugar maple. (I'm from Sweden, so that's why I know about birches but not sugar maples).

[@user-mj4or8sh3g]

@@AmelieHarms poor trees all they want to do is give us oxygen.

[@erasedkarma]

Amelie Harms actually a dude from an earlier comment has been doing the same tree since he was 4, he’s 43 now. The tree do grow back the holes because if they didn’t a majority of them would hav holes in them. Rotation is not needed nor important. A tree doesn’t feel pain so it doesn’t really matter. The tree will continue being a tree no matter what you do to it.

[@tinaampe9796]

Lol why is this in my recommendation? Interesting though.

[@cody7125]

Tina Ampe same

[@mandarinsandclementines2997]

It probably was in my rec bc of the useless info I watch+ foraging vuds

[@Rainbow__cookie]

I don't know but I enjoy it

[@mattontop]

Yeah it got recommended also to me Great vid though

[@Banter-vw7ck]

@@test-zg4hv honestly its more that certain videos that have no similarity to anthing you watch gets recommended so you have a look and this seems to happen to large groups of people at once so all it takes is 1 or 2 people to say it and then everyone starts to think it, and then it spreads across youtube.

[@movax20h]

Ooo. Today I learned. I always thought that the living part is the in the center, and the one at the outside is dead, and protects against loosing water or extreme temperatures. But damn, obviously, the center can't be living, because it would explode the tree (like what the bark looks like), and the growing rings couldn't actually form. Outside being alive is so much more obvious and working, and explains how rings form.

[@trashcontent4851]

Did you not learn 6th grade biology or something?

[@meowmur302]

TrashContent damn bro insulting someone for learning something 😔

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@trashcontent4851 Classes before college usually cover more broad topics. They wouldn't go into something specific like the process of tree healing. Not really important to know unless you plan to have a job dealing with trees, in which case there are (probably) college classes on that.

[@trashcontent4851]

@@WanderTheNomad I mean 6th grade biology did teach you guys that a tree's living part is on the outside and not the inside right?

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@trashcontent4851 Did you watch the video? The cambium might be one of the outermost layers, but it's still on the inside right below the bark, which is mostly made of dead cells. That's also where OP was mistaken. The inside heartwood is dead, but so is the bark that makes up the outermost layer. It's what's inbetween that's alive.

[@robinfrommenwiler3257]

Tree: I will never financially recover from this.

[@austbob7161]

I just think of it as blood. You can take someone’s blood and there will be no problem since you can make it right back. But if you take to much some bad things happen lol

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

I like your icon.

[@-avalon-9440]

I like you icon.

[@tarek_wehbi]

I like your icon.

[@jaakkomakinen5011]

Also, there will be quite a large scar.

[@maixe13]

AustBob The Cuber Mmmm delicious tree blood on my waffles

[@valeriavagapova]

The amount of effort, time and research that must have gone into this video... I'm in awe. Thank you so much for sharing your work with the world:) I learned a lot from this.

[@TheAuxLux]

Since you guys are collecting maple ap, I thought this video might be a bit biased, and some uncomfortable facts could be omitted. Yet I couldn't be more wrong. I'm very impressed how honest this video was. Hats off!

[@ricardobejeraste3569]

It's unreal. Absolutely unreal. Every time I see a video about something I'm not really interested I end up amazed by the things you allow me to learn so easily and in such an interesting way. I'm sure you could go on and on about something like the growing of grass and I'd be hooked!

[@EarthwithAdam]

You guys are my favorite gardening you tubers! I’ve learned so much from your videos. Hope you continue to make more, I love them!

[@danielflores2492]

I just gotta say when it was talking about the blood and the sap clotting and at the bottom when it said not to scale I bursted into laughter and made my day for some reason lol

[@cduke_1]

This was a great post and you did a fantastic job making the information easier to consume! In my last career, I was an arborist based out of the SouthWest US. I've never tapped a tree (it's on my bucket list!), but I have had to offer recommendations for homeowners whose trees had suffered from wounds. Generally, trees do a great job of repairing themselves so don't apply any kind of "wound dressing" or try to fill the cavity. You can probably support the tree's cellular processes with consistent watering through droughts and mulching/not removing leaf litter. You're in luck that pests and diseases have to work a bit harder in colder climates and the winters offer some natural protection. I'm not sure what the timing is like on removing your taps, but if you could have it coincide with the ebb of vector insects or pests in general, that would probably help too! Just remember this is a post-injury tree. It may or may not hold a hammock safely/treehouse/etc safely. :) I really love your channel. Keep up the great work!

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Does eating a lettuce hurt the lettuce? Everything we eat is dead or dies as we eat it. The only way to nourish ourselves without killing nothing would be to live from the air, sun, water, and minerals. Becoming a plant.

[@kurdaitcha5806]

Plants utilise nutrients from dead organisms as well.

[@gudadada]

That's not how it works. There are ways to access food that are unnecessary that we use every day, as opposed to less preferable but more humane options. And no I'm not a vegan.

[@ns1001]

There are ways, like harvesting seeds ment for distribution itself can be exploited without much hurting.

[@kkuhn]

without killing nothing, so killing something?

[@kkuhn]

Ebonics is confusing

[@ninjabaiano6092]

Soo today i learned that canadians export and love tree blood. Thats why they say sorry "i an sorry" soo much. They are guilty because they are vampires.

[@thegaminggekopro8716]

How to be a vegan vampire Step 1: Be Canadian Step 2: Suck the tree Step 3: PROFIT

[@shooteiurchhcucjcjfhhf3471]

@@thegaminggekopro8716 "suck the tree" oh no...

[@halamadruuid2380]

TheGamingGeko Pro UwU tree-chan, c-can I suck your tree juice UwU

[@hanznatividad4203]

Could've said Suck the wood

[@MistahShootrES]

7:54 “such attractive patterns” Kinda funny how it connects to how humans are always attracted to things that are scarred or defected, how we don’t like things to be boring and “all good”.

[@carso1500]

Probably because something scarred means that it has survived extreme conditions, thats why in fiction seeing someone whos scarred means that he is a badass, because he has survived things that would have killed others, for our ancestors seeing someone with scars would have probably mean the same, that the guy with the scars is a badass that has survived encounters with true monsters and has survived and came out alive not unscatered, but wiser Also yeah, we usually don't like simetric things

[@mikuhatsunegoshujin]

Bob Bobbertson what the heck is that pic sussposed to be? why is that girls head looking to the left and the neck is visable but the mask and body is facing toward the right? It's so jarring and unnatural.

[@ExtremUnknownAl]

most thing we consume we tend to kill first, the trees are 'lucky' that we only injure them a little.

[@framegrace1]

We have a dish called "Meat of living beast", and it's really meat from a living creature. It's a stew made with sheep's tail, they cut to them when young to avoid infections. It's a rare event when you know the owner of meat you are eating is happily grazing on a green pasture.

[@stijn2472]

@@framegrace1 That sounds very interesting. If I may ask, what country is this dish from?

[@stefthorman8548]

@@stijn2472 probably the French.

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@framegrace1 that is quite revolting. Do you have any science on sheep tails causing infection if they are not cut? It would seem like the opposite is true.

[@thepenguin11]

Until you decide you want some bbq, then you end up killing one. :P

[@TheSoapThatCan]

Love this video! Thank you for the information. Every year I tap Birch trees and I know some basic things like, don't use the same tree every year if possible but switch trees every 2 years. I assumed it could heal the hole as well, but since I now know that's not the case I'll be more careful as to how I tap trees in the future!

[@mezua123]

5:39 speaking of fungus, do you have mushrooms in your woods? If so you should consider picking them. Some are also perfect for storage during winter months. Also fullfills every aspect of your back to reality philosophy. And lastly i would love to see a video from you about mushrooms

[@wyatt8062]

5:07 this isn’t to scale? You’re telling me I’ve been hallucinating giants and huge thumb tacks this whole time?

[@nobodynever4326]

This was an amazing video! The graphics are so easy to understand while you still explain everything so detailed! Loved the video very much,, thanks a lot

[@reidiko341]

AMAZING Video, information, animations. Do you do all the animations on your own ? Because they are really good and go very well while you speak all the information!

[@BackToReality]

Thanks so much! I do all of the animations too, so I really appreciate the positive feedback :)

[@vulpesser]

Agree. It looks really good. Simple, clean, enjoyable. A pity that you update new content so rarely. Maybe do some spring update of your garden? I wonder how does it look like this year. And hows asparagus going. All best from Poland :)

[@reidiko341]

@@vulpesser Animations need a lot time to make, also I bet he tried over and over to have a good video to follow his voice narration. Yeahhh I wanna see that beautiful garden too now in spring ♥️😍😍♥️

[@heidibundy8906]

This is an amazingly well done explanation of what happens to a tapped maple tree! I will suggest this video for our customers.

[@vulnerablerummy]

Me : *reads channel's name* Also me : "Oh there goes gravity, Oh-"

[@alolanpikachu7330]

I was thinking that and you beat me to commenting

[@deluxgaming6742]

Such a good and positive video. Something I never thought about and never asked to hear but still so interesting and worth to watch! Thank you.

[@nexus2031]

Does drilling a hole in a tree and taking its “blood” hurt it...Canada 101

[@chrisnormand]

Wow, you are by far one of the best KZbinrs that I have ever seen! Fantastic production, great writing and a fabulous presentation. I’ve just binge watched 20+ of your videos. I can’t wait for more.

[@claudiaw9246]

Fascinating! I'm always appreciative of the effort you put into researching, illustrating, and explaining a topic thoroughly. Also? Cambrium is a great Scrabble word -- I will have to keep it in mind the next time I play :-)

[@MottyGlix]

("Cambrium is a great Scrabble word") But it's Cambium - no R.

[@claudiaw9246]

@@MottyGlix Thanks for catching the mistake :-)

[@BloodAsp]

The amount of care and thought you gave to this tree was heart wrenching. lol, good content though, got yourself a new sub!

[@ilikechocolate3741]

Does this hurt the tree? *starts drilling the tree*

[@seeseefok7659]

*"is this hurting the tree?"* *guy asking things about the butterfly with a photoshopped picture of the tree*

[@expositionisunnecessary4651]

As someone whose family has a large farm mostly dedicated to maple syrup I’m shocked to hear details about the damage caused to the trees. I was always told that trees didn’t receive barely any damage from tapping and the release of some of the built up pressure helped the trees so tapping them was a kind of symbiotic relationship. I’ll try to keep this in mind in the future! Although seeing as we’ve been tapping a lot of the trees in our woods for decades I’m willing to bet we aren’t damaging them so badly that they can’t recover. Great video!

[@fourth7162]

This is the best interesting video all year.

[@ryanmacallister6373]

This was so interesting! I found the video randomly and stayed on a whim and was fascinated by your great explanations and accompanying animations. I wish science at school was this informative and engaging !

[@nobody-rb9xh]

This is good to know, I recently started collecting sap from my maple trees and now i know what happens.

[@Blackhuf]

You guys really should do more videos, I love them!! Hopefully you will upload a video about your first plantings of the season soon! :)

[@misaalanshori]

If the hole stays in the tree permanently, we should start hiding notes in the holes and if one day the tree was cut down or if it died, someone might find the note like some kind of time capsule. Of course the notes would need to be protected well to protect it from moisture or and stuff but that would be very cool

[@tim1tim2tim3tim4]

imagine you break your old shelf into smaller pieces to burn it and suddenly drops out a note to tell you something. What would be the best thing to be written in that note?

[@nataliecaldwell346]

What a great video! Very informative and interesting. Hope you start posting again and more frequently. I'd love to see how your garden is doing.

[@petekooshian5595]

When you talk about the morality of hurting a plant, you have to remember we do kill and eat vegetables too. "Hurting" a tree when it can recover pretty well isn't the same as devastating a forest and killing the tree. Thanks for the informative videos!

[@happygimp0]

We hurt and kill sentient animals, should we try to stop that first?

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

@@happygimp0 Unfortunately... unless we do population control part of life requires kill something else. Life and Death are tied as for one to exist it much take from another. Even trapping a tree for sap means killing part of the tree. A cut that bleeds is a sign that some cells were killed. Life depends on Death... as without it populations overflow and kill the environment. (Deer without predators will destroy the land and over populate...)

[@ElectricityTaster]

Climate change is killing trillions of trees in the USA alone, so even if maple tapping kills 10% of the trees tapped, it's a pretty minor issue right now if we care about trees. But still, we should try to conserve all the trees we can because they have very important ecological roles. And you can't compare a tree to a vegetable because replacing a vegetable takes a few months; replacing a tree can take decades or centuries.

[@happygimp0]

@@Buglin_Burger7878 Interesting, if someone defends killing of humans with "Killing is necessary for life", everyone would say it his a crazy, why do we accept it when we talk about other animals?

[@happygimp0]

@@Buglin_Burger7878 Ever heard of an appeal to futility fallacy?

[@aaronspidle4019]

Great video as always. It’s really cool to see how involved in the comment section you are

[@aaronspidle4019]

Also not to scale made me laugh

[@BackToReality]

Lol, I was wondering if anyone would comment on that. ;)

[@Rose-85]

1:49 "Does feel a little unnerving drilling a hole in the side of a living organism" Lumberjacks: *starts chainsaw* WHAT?

[@iska699]

not a chainsaw

[@JeffDale613]

You truly amaze me guys. Great work once again!!!

[@laurieanne9712]

I always learn at this vlog--sure wish there was more vids!

[@alecboss8646]

You can tap Maple and River Birch trees for water in a survival situation in a similar way. I was taught though that the amount of taps you can have depends on the diameter of the tree for example a tree that is only 1 foot diameter thick can’t take more than one tap. We were also told to plug our hole either with a hardwood plug or with mud or clay to help the tree heal and prevent it from being damaged

[@donkan683]

You guys need to be professors at a university... I would never miss a class! Thank you so much for these awesome, informative, and educational videos! Also, would putting a piece of cork or dowel rod in one of those tap holes after the season help the tree reduce its exposure to diseases that would cause the insides to rot?

[@user-fl2ug7sr3t]

That's a good question 🤔🤔

[@ElectricityTaster]

The cork won't work because it won't remain airtight for long enough and it will trap in moisture. Fungi thrives in moisture, especially if it has good access to air. The best thing you can do is use the smallest diameter hole you can get away with and make sure the tree is growing in optimal conditions. Healthy trees will often outrun decay, except maybe trees that are very weak compartmentalisers such as birch (meaning wood decay spreads fast within them).

[@___Vortex___]

Your channel is honestly amazing. I fell asleep watching Self Sufficient Me videos and KZbin autoplay worked it's magic! Not only that ,I finally found a fellow Ontarian to get gardening tips from!

[@FRISHR]

Minecraft needs an update for Maple trees and syrup

[@carso1500]

That would be awesome

[@lvs6775]

Such high quality content. Love your videos and look forward to new ones!

[@nomore1980]

We need more updates on everything. It’s spring, let’s see the strawberries and asparagus.

[@jamesrempel8522]

I agree, but it's a long time until strawberry season in Ottawa. Like, mid to late June.

[@kevinpineda3081]

This is the most educative video I've seen this week thank you!

[@tasha3757]

5:06 That's one *GIANT* finger you got there duuude. Look at it compared to that *"To Scale Image"* of the 15+ year old tree! 😲😲😲

[@DogHouseEntertainmentINC]

I learned more about a tree in a 9 minute video than I did in an entire school year....

[@smolder6366]

Nobody tell him that plants actually feel pain and "scream" when damaged.

[@Zyn_Shi]

*the vegans can be heard panicking from over a mile sway*

[@mikuhatsunegoshujin]

I'm a plant sadist.

[@kittenmimi5326]

Mwehehehehe

[@OnTerraFirma]

This video was far more informed than I could have ever imagined. Codit is still working its way through in the dendrology field. Excellent job on your research!

[@jaannmikaela8105]

brain: hey hey me: shut up im trying to sleep. -_- brain: does collecting maple sap hurt the tree? me: 0_0

[@audpicc]

this was so well researched and illustrated!!! Bravo

[@BackToReality]

Thanks so much Andy!

[@kalebbruwer]

Me: about to go to sleep Also me while closing my browser: Yes, I need to know, right now, how what tapping maple sap does to the tree, even though I am half a world away from maple trees.

[@fitmotheyap]

I watched the vid 3 years ago so i had to watch this

[@ethandavey65]

Yes. Ok

[@ritajohnson5594]

Also heard that some commercial growers or people with several trees rotate so the same tree is not used year after year

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

Tree: *stabs human for a minimal amount of tasty, nutricious blood* Do you think this harms the human?

[@l0sts0ul89]

How do you know human blood is tasty

[@dnielzcx5490]

eating human itself isnt even healthy

[@shintapp]

Mosquito does that all the time tho

[@kittenmimi5326]

So... treecmosquitos. Except humans feel it

[@ashadahmad651]

Wow man you explained it in so much detail yet so simply.

[@dominiksulzer1338]

What about putting a stick inside the hole? Like in Jonna does in a video when tapping birch tree (/watch?v=VH5oxHVgUvM).

[@sebbes333]

Not sure, but I guess you have to sterilize the stick first (boiling? (but boiling it might destroy the wood structure instead?)), and I don't know if that will add any benefit, or if it will just act as a host of decay or disease? Maybe it can help if you also seal the hole with some kind of wax that someone mentioned in a comment above here, so no pathogens can enter the wound, but i still don't feel that the stick would add much benefit to the tree.

[@ElectricityTaster]

You don't want to trap-in moisture because that helps wood-decay fungi to establish faster. Just use the smallest diameter hole you can get away with and let the tree do the rest. Sealing the wound with wax sounds like a good idea, but the pathogens get inside the moment you drill the hole because they are airborne. Some science actually points to dormant spores are all over the wood of trees, waiting for air to get to them after a wound is formed. The sealant will never be airtight long enough because you have heat expansion and contraction during the night and day and the cambium pushing it out as it grows. The only time you would use a wax or a wound paint is when you know there are certain pests in the area that are attracted to the chemicals released by wounded trees (kairomones), like happens with pine beetles. Other things you can do to minimise damage to the tree and that are often overlooked is to make sure the plant is not stressed. Make sure it gets enough water and nutrients (do a soil and leaf test to figure out which because adding too much fertiliser can damage the tree and soil). If needed, put mulch around the tree, as this keeps moisture in the soil and adds nutrients as the mulch is broken down. Also, don't tap a tree that is infected with a pest or disease. And last but not least, plant more trees! Ideally trees raised from seed collected a few hundred miles south (in the northern hemisphere), as they are likely to be more resistant to the warming climate you are likely to have in your area over the next couple of decades.

[@aeiouvowels7305]

Sion rub the stick with alcohol maybe

[@georgeborcean3265]

I was thinking its interesting to see what is the answer to that question. And was incredible the whole video, so good, and I can see the time you give to this. Thanks for all! 😁

[@bremCZ]

The answer is: Nobody knows, but we assume not because it makes us feel better about ourselves.

[@prussianeagle1941]

Well we've been tapping trees and cutting them down for thousands of years, and what have we always had in Earth? You guessed it! Forests

[@atulit]

That is pretty false satisfying point

[@bremCZ]

@@prussianeagle1941 I cut trees down too, but that still doesn't mean we know whether or not trees hurt in some way.

[@prussianeagle1941]

@@bremCZ Well... do trees have brains? Do they have pain receptors? Do they have neurons? Do they have emotions, or thoughts? Can they breath in and out with lungs? Oh wait they dont have lungs. Do they have a heart? Nope. I dont think something can feel pain if it doesnt have pain receptors nor a brain to catch the electrical signals from them.

[@Alucia0]

This was an extremely good video. Well made and though provoking. I love that you actually made it very clear that this is the biology of a living thing and not just the functions of an inanimate object. It is very easy to forget that we are dealing with a lifeform here. Very good, very informative video. Thank you.

[@711jastin]

PETA is enough, we don't need another one for plants, seriously

[@afonsoalmada6945]

@hickspaced calm down u moron

[@drobnoxius9483]

@hickspaced how is he wrong, I thought it was a widely accepted fact that peta is terrible

[@billrich9722]

hickspaced Your face is an absolute moron.

[@ethandavey65]

Bill Rich ok

[@ethandavey65]

dr obnoxius ok

[@shane3428]

This is the most informative video about tree biology that I’ve ever seen lolol... I wish I had this video for when I was taking botany

[@AethernaLuxen]

I just find it interesting that a single hole in a tree straight up drains the whole thing

[@timtalksanimations9171]

My botany teacher taught us about tree anatomy, but never this detailed. One of the many instances that youtube taught me better and more than schools.

[@jwrosenbury]

I knew a guy who was a vegan. He didn't so much love animals as hate plants. Now he's going to have to give up maple syrup as well.

[@zerid0]

Did you forget the part where he said the tree isn't sentient?

[@makak_zeleny]

@@zerid0 doesn't matter, it's still alive. Also there are some studies which suggest that plants can sense other living organisms like people and animals.

[@Felivii]

Thank you for taking the question seriously and not belittling those who asked.

[@BackToReality]

Thanks for saying Felivi. To be honest, I found the question fascinating, and really enjoyed researching the answer. So this was as much for me, as it was for them :)

[@guilhermemoreno4498]

wtf i went to a envirement technology college class and didn't even notice i have no words to describe how important this videto is. thanks, man

[@thatsmypizzaroll]

Bro seriously biology tried teaching me about trees and plants and how they worked and this guy made it make sense when he summed it up. Thanks!!

[@mobo_h]

I have no idea why KZbin recommended this to me, but I got to say it was very entertaining and informative. I'm glad KZbin gives some random recommendations every once in a while

[@Reptex_cs]

Nicely explained, well done. From what I understand, if one would want to simplify even further, the tree basically takes up slightly more nutrients and produce slightly more syrup to compensate for the "drought" in the area that has been tapped. If this is the case I wonder if tapping stimulates/forces root-growth. Do regularly tapped trees have relatively robust root-systems compared to an untapped one? Cheers✌

[@topazpagoda]

I always wondered about this. Thanks for taking the time to gather the answers about this!

[@leamor1999]

Thank you for a great video and explanation. Love the way you produce your videos. Very impressive!

[@ollie2194]

1:20 those few seconds explained more about storing energy and food than all my school years ever did

[@Baxbax]

Wow this is actually a great video. So much time and effort and research put into it and animation?! Awesome job man, interesting too for sure.

[@cmoore6131]

Wonderful presentation! And beautiful animation! 👏👏👏

[@OhMars]

Everything has A conciousness in it's own way.

[@cloudinthehead8054]

We planted some acorns in our garden about 10 years ago and in spite of how rare it is for an acorn to grow into an adult tree one of them actually made it and we now have one young and healthy oak in our garden. Even as "just a tree", we still love our little-not-so-little oak almost like a pet, so I love videos like this, even tho some may find them silly

[@brianwhite9555]

Great explanation and graphics! Never knew all of what you described. Thanks!

[@randelcarpio]

Just stumbled upon your channel through this video, and from scrolling through your past ones, I think I'll subscribe 😁

[@matthewrisley9070]

Another top notch video. So glad I found your channel!

[@TheMilkMan8008]

Idk what's more weird, the fact that this was recommended for me or the fact that I sat through the whole thing

[@Sofie72]

some plug up the holes when tapping season is over. after a few dry sunny days. using a stick or plug made from the same tree. to help the healing process.

[@rawdata678]

U can make a mixture of cheap vinilic glue mixed with some copper sulfate powder (an antimicotic for plants) and seal the holes. This mixture is usually used for innests and severed branches.

[@ilkero1067]

Extremely high quality content there, bravo!

[@FantasyDreamHomes]

So why not fill the tap hole at the end of the collection season with a medicated glue-plug that helps promote faster and more beneficial healing?

[@clarkkent551]

An "addiction" has not been met. Thank you for sharing what you know and love and live. I like your reasoning and wit, take care.

[@CupidGTag]

Me at 2:33 AM: *I don’t need sleep. I need answers.*

[@joeheyka129]

Just a few things you missed for the tree itself from the center to outer it goes pith, heartwood, sapwood, cambium, inner bark, then outer bark. Also trees get two growth rings per year one light and one dark so every other ring represents a year