So I used ultra bleach to get my pool almost perfectly clear and blue this spring - thanks for the advice.

Then the pollen started falling. We have tons of oak and pine trees around the house and every day I'd go home and scoop off all those pollen "buds" off the top of the water and pull several pounds of them from the skimmer.

Well day by day the water got more yellow/green. I vacuumed and brushed, backwashed, etc. Kept the chems up. It wouldn't clear. Now the pollen is almost done falling but the water will not clear. The bottom of the pool is covered in what must be pollen.

I'm keeping a 15ppm chlorine level right now just to make sure this isn't algae. But it doesn't change anything. It's still green. I've been trying for over a month to get this clear.

I added a gallon of clarifier, plus I've been putting fiber brite?? I think that's what it's called - in the skimmer each time I backwash to help filter out the smaller stuff. I also added 2 quarts of polyquat for good measure.

My filter is a brand new (last year) sand filter using zeosand. The pool is an 18x36x8.5' inground with a vinyl liner. The liner was replaced last year too and now it looks like this POLLEN - if that's what it is has actually stained the entire liner. How do I get rid of that?

My little girl has a pool party on her birthday every year - and that day is next month on the 17th. So I have a month to get this thing perfect again and I'm about to start freaking out. I've tried everything.

I tested my chems last night - chlorine off the chart, alk good, ph 6.8 - so I added a whole box of borax... pool still looks the same today.

Help me please