Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
Sorry to piss you off, but those are awful trees for 8 year olds. they look like 4 year olds. Poor girth, and even more importantly, poor canopy. Purely down to lack of care, and lack of the correct fertilisers and amounts. Also that output of cup (my missus calls that style "fried eggs") is ok on the very first tapping session spread over a week or two on newly opened trees, but thereafter ie 3 weeks on, into tapping you should be getting a cup full per fortnight minimum. Sorry.
Think I'd take the governments cut down money if they were my trees.
Thai way, stick them in the ground, fertilize with hope. Jim