Pine pollen?

[bikemike]

Coming down Gebbies Pass towards Govenors Bay today around 10:30 I saw what for all the world looked like green smoke floating against Church Bay and over Lyttleton Harbour. I looked a good few times coming around the bay and it persisted.

Once home I jumped in the car and the bonnet was green.

Is this pine pollen? Phenomenal. Anyone with 'hay' fever around here? was today a bad day? Isn't it a bit early?

[Mom]

Might be early down there, but up here it has been around for a month or more. I hate the stuff! Everything is covered in a fine film of yellow snore invoking shit. I snore like a mad demon snorer as a result! Hate the stuff.

[1wheel riot]

na its about the right time for it.

[wickle]

Might be early down there, but up here it has been around for a month or more. I hate the stuff! Everything is covered in a fine film of yellow snore invoking shit. I snore like a mad demon snorer as a result! Hate the stuff.
same here, after rain gutters look like someone has dumped aload of sulpher

[rickstv]

Looks a lot worse than it is as far as I'm concerned. I suffer from hay fever from mid October till 1st week in the new year and have never been affected by pine pollen (or wattle pollen which looks similar)
Rick.

[Brett]

Yep, every week I have a nice layer or yellow on the garage floor, over my car which is parked outside and well...pretty much over everything. It is annoying, but nothing a good rain wont clean.

[Motu]

We've had it for several weeks too - it's just letting up now.I was pretty sure it was pine pollen,and was in some pine trees today....confirmed.

[Hitcher]

Regional councils perennially issue pine pollen advisories on about the same date they urge whitebaiters to protect the banks and beds of streams and rivers into which they festoon their nets.

[coffeejunkie]

My car bonnet is bloody covered in the shit every morning, Pine trees out the back of our place

[sunhuntin]

been everywhere for a while around here. i get hayfever, but mine hasnt kicked in yet. normally it hits around the same weekend as the burt munro and lasts until well into autumn. i blame the native trees as i didnt have hay fever until i came back from canada. i figure my immunity to native trees got ruined in the 6 months i was away. i just have to remember to take a pill each day and that usually fixes it pretty good. used to be on razene/zyrtec, but now its zetop/zetap [cant remember which!] which is better.

[Shadows]

i blame the native trees as i didnt have hay fever until i came back from canada. i figure my immunity to native trees got ruined in the 6 months i was away.

Probably quite the opposite. With the amount of pine trees in Canada, your immune system was probably working overtime and you just didn't know it - now you're back and the slightest whiff of the local pine trees sets it off. Just like people who become allergic to bee stings - they often don't become allergic until they've been stung once - then the second time it's life threatening. That's often the way allergies work.

[CookMySock]

Yeah we get thick layers of the stuff coming off the forestry up this way.

There was this huge anvil thunderstorm funnel cloud brewing all afternoon, sucking up tonnes and tonnes of water vapour, and then it drew in this big green cloud of pollen, and MAAAAAAN did it have a mental after that. Hail like BIG marbles and and the rest... Awesome.

Steve

[yungatart]

Aaaahhhh, Hawkes Bay at this time of the year is covered in that nasty yellow tree sperm! Everything is coated.
It makes my nose drip and my eyes itchy...horrible stuff! been around for weeks now.

[sels1]

Yep, the Kapiti Coast has had its annual sprinkle of yellow powder too

[sunhuntin]

Probably quite the opposite. With the amount of pine trees in Canada, your immune system was probably working overtime and you just didn't know it.

its not the pine setting it off though. otherwise id be taking my pills already.

[MSTRS]

Hayfever...wonderful condition. Not.
However, not everyone who suffers is reacting to pine pollen. But it is a biggie, and the yellow dust everywhere is a pain.

[Hitcher]

Aaaahhhh, Hawkes Bay at this time of the year is covered in that nasty yellow tree sperm! Everything is coated.
It makes my nose drip and my eyes itchy...horrible stuff! been around for weeks now.

In the Hawke's Bay's case, wattles and gorse are probably contributing too.

[MSTRS]

In the Hawke's Bay's case, wattles and gorse are probably contributing too.

Nature's attempt at covering all the bases?
Starts around the end of June, most years. Seems to be easing off now.

[FROSTY]

dont talk to me about that F#$#$#$ s#$$%#$# I start washing cars at 9 am --by 11 am the first car looks like its covered in thich green moss again.

[Kiwi Graham]

Yep, got a white campervan that turns yellow this time of year. Fukin stuff

[DMNTD]

I blame the white man for bringing that shit here... :dodge:

[Number One]

Pine pollen is out of control this year! Bloody hell for us allergy sufferers....but the drugs are good so we work with it :whistle:

[klingon]

Hayfever...wonderful condition. Not.
However, not everyone who suffers is reacting to pine pollen. But it is a biggie, and the yellow dust everywhere is a pain.

That's what I heard from an allergy specialist. Apparently a lot of people blame the pine pollen because it's the most visible, but there are lots of other things flowering at the same time that are less obvious but more likely to set off hayfever.

The allergy guy said that pine pollen granules are quite big (which is what makes them visible) but it's the smaller pollens that can get deeper into your body that are often the worst for hayfever.

The same goes for privet. A lot of people who think they are reacting to privet are often reacting to grasses that are flowering at the same time.

But the pine is still the one that makes my beautiful black bike a kind of dusty yellow every day. :girlfight:

[boman]

Was dowm at the Waingaro Pub a couple weekends ago, came outside to find the scooter a nice shade of pine yellow/green. Plenty around alright. Rye grass is a big cause of hayfever, most people tend to blame privet.

[yungatart]

In the Hawke's Bay's case, wattles and gorse are probably contributing too.

Not much gorse in HB, its too dry for it...but loads of fruit trees all in blossom.
Its set to get worse tho for hayfever sufferers...wait till the equinox winds start blowing....

[ready4whatever]

had a heavy load come down today. looked like my bonnet was getting spraypainted yellow

[Blackshear]

Slowly seeing more and more pollen on my bike, IN THE GARAGE, for the past month.

Fuck I am not looking forward to swollen eyes and a nose on fire.