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The tree pollinates during a 2 to 3 month period during the winter months, and for many people, the allergies it causes are horrendous. If you're allergic to it, you're basically screwed from December - February. The pollen is so thick in the area that your car will covered with orange dust every morning.
My property is full of them. In February and March the trees expectorate visible yellow clouds. It's a nightmare.
> “They didn’t care about possessions,” Roberts says, “and they lived in housing fit for animals.” I find it interesting how disrespectfully nose up folks talk about humble people like the Cedar Choppers, when if we all continued to live like they did, we wouldn't be in this climate mess we are in. It's caring about possessions and extravagant homes ( un fit for animals?) that has destroyed the planet for all animals…
I cringed at the 'fit for animals' phrase too. Imagine if the author had used it regarding, say, some other group. That said, it's certainly possible to live in a simple, low-resource way without being disorderly and unclean. I think along the lines of those rural places with a whole bunch of shit strewn about the yard when I think of 'living like animals', as opposed to a small, simple cabin in the woods.
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My property is full of them. In February and March the trees expectorate visible yellow clouds. It's a nightmare.
And a blesssing for CO2 long term storage and soil texture.
It's not merely annoying, in this case, its incorrect.
Central Texas' cedars (aka Junipers) are an invasive species that destroy other plants. The cedars suck up an enormous amount of water, killing nearby live oaks and other larger trees that provide healthy ecosystems.
They are weeds of the tree world in Texas.
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And a blesssing for CO2 long term storage and soil texture.
Can there be single thread on HN without some reference to global warming? It's not merely annoying, in this case, its incorrect. Central Texas' cedars (aka Junipers) are an invasive species that destroy other plants. The cedars suck up an enormous amount of water, killing nearby live oaks and other larger trees that provide healthy ecosystems. They are weeds of the tree world in Texas.
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From https://nosneezes.com/resources/pollen-information/ : "The highest pollen counts ever recorded anywhere in the world occur annually when these trees cut loose." That source doesn't give any further information to back this up, but it doesn't seem too hard to believe.
what would be a definition of "cut loose"? If it means pruned, sounds logical to me.
I'm not a botanist by any stretch of the imagination, but I believe that once pollen is on the trees, the wind is the final thing that shakes it loose.
Here's a video showing what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEYcBnE-IPA