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    MOUNTAIN CEDAR: What’s the highest count ever recorded in San Antonio?

    Around these parts it's Moutain Cedar Season. Mountain Cedars up in the Hill Country spew their pollen and it settles down on the San Antonio area giving many of us a case of Cedar Fever. I get allergy shots once a month that have relieved me of most of the many allergies I have, but not this monster. We recently had freezing temps which turns plants brown so I've spent the last 3 days or so pruning back, just in time for the worst of the allergen. They say stay indoors to avoid it but with cold temperature, the heater sucks in air from outside and recent warm weather in the 80s means the A/C sucks in all the allergens!

    MOUNTAIN CEDAR: What’s the highest count ever recorded in San Antonio?



    The pollen from mountain cedar trees creates figurative and literal headaches every year for allergy sufferers. You may find yourself wondering how this year’s cedar season compares to years past.

    ...Technically, mountain cedar trees aren’t cedar trees at all! The plant we know as “mountain cedar” is actually ashe juniper (juniperus ashei).

    Around Texas, ashe juniper trees mainly grow in the Hill Country, with male trees pollinating late in the year. By December, wind can easily pick up the tree pollen, spreading the irritating pollen grains across South Central Texas. By Valentine’s Day, most of the tree pollen has blown from the trees or has been washed out of the air, and cedar season comes to an end.



    Above you can see the current mountain cedar season. According to Syring, the 2022-2023 season was delayed slightly due the Christmastime hard freeze. In her opinion, “it will be a below average season based upon the numbers so far and may not be as intense due to the dry summer and the hard freeze.”

    That being said, even a below-average mountain cedar season still creates major allergy issues for cedar sufferers....
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    We get the Pine pollen early in the spring but it is more of a dust nuisance to me. Everything gets covered. You just hope for a good rain wind mixture.
    It is the invisible pollen that follows that keeps everyone around here looking like they just had bad plastic surgery.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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    "recent warm weather in the 80s means the A/C sucks in all the allergens!"

    And gets other stuff to blooming again in January. There's been something floating around in the air here since Sunday. It's not cedar pollen. Not sure what it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    We get the Pine pollen early in the spring but it is more of a dust nuisance to me. Everything gets covered. You just hope for a good rain wind mixture.
    It is the invisible pollen that follows that keeps everyone around here looking like they just had bad plastic surgery.
    This stuff covers everything. Soon my black truck will be bright green.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    This stuff covers everything. Soon my black truck will be bright green.
    That is the same exact thing as our Pine Pollen. Every vehicle is a yellow green. Even if you wash it the day before. The streets are like a green haboob.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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    All this Rain in California means pollen in the Spring!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Around these parts it's Moutain Cedar Season. Mountain Cedars up in the Hill Country spew their pollen and it settles down on the San Antonio area giving many of us a case of Cedar Fever. I get allergy shots once a month that have relieved me of most of the many allergies I have, but not this monster. We recently had freezing temps which turns plants brown so I've spent the last 3 days or so pruning back, just in time for the worst of the allergen. They say stay indoors to avoid it but with cold temperature, the heater sucks in air from outside and recent warm weather in the 80s means the A/C sucks in all the allergens!

    MOUNTAIN CEDAR: What’s the highest count ever recorded in San Antonio?
    I'm an allergy guy and it sucks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    This stuff covers everything. Soon my black truck will be bright green.
    Yep, in my neck of the woods, figuratively and literally, we get pine pollen. Great billowing yellow clouds of the stuff. It's one reason I have been meaning to remove the three culprits that line our driveway. I hate to though, they are beautiful, and provide a great deal of shade. But the pollen is a killer.
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