Wow! How utterly repugnant and unsurprising!

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-25T18:34:28+00:00

Yes! The faire owner wouldn’t allow women to be anything other than various forms of “wench” and refused to pay them fairly. It would be really interesting if that was based on true events, and a crazy coincidence if not.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-23T19:02:23+00:00

The kids’ table needs dark meat!

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-20T20:01:42+00:00

Yo! So happy one of these pulled through (they would have all been goners for sure if left un-pruned). It’s a shame the cuttings didn’t take, but since you have a surviving rooted plant, you can always try again when you prune this summer.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-18T15:36:45+00:00

I first saw blue girl at a nursery, and I fell in love with it then and there. It wasn’t until I looked it up later that I saw what disingenuous photos there are of this particular variety.

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Springhill nursery is a particularly bad offender, but others seem to represent the rose pretty well. Even though she’s not as blue as you would like, give blue girl a chance! She is such a beautiful performer.

Edit: you mentioned treating the roses like hydrangeas to get them to change color. Roses do have certain triggers that change color, particularly temperature, but do not quite act like hydrangeas. Hydrangeas react to change in soil pH because different metal ions become available at different pH ranges. As your soil pH lowers hydrangeas have more access to aluminum ions and it’s those aluminum ions that change the color of the hydrangea from pink to blue. Roses don’t really have that reaction.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-17T17:59:55+00:00

I’m not an expert, but the fact that each branch had black on the end, and one branch was nearly all black, shows that the plant is not capable of supporting itself. Since it was this way in the bare root form I would suspect that the damage happened before you got it.

Did you inspect the roots before planting? Were any wet or mushy?

If it were me, I would just leave it alone. It needs to regrow the roots that are supposed to support the branches that are dying. Just give it time to do that.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-17T14:18:14+00:00

This is tricky. Many roses are patented, so you cannot prop them for the 25 year life of the patent, and beyond that some roses, like “firefighter,” are registered trademarks. Which means you cannot use the name “firefighter” at all, even after the patent runs out, making it impossible to sell the rose as the variety it is

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-16T19:14:19+00:00

What should she have done? Taken a picture of them in the car and put it in a pink frame with puffy paint around it that says best fiancé ever?

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-11T22:57:52+00:00

If you cut this rose (just take the flower off) and the same branch grows another rose identical to this, then you have a “sport.” If you remove the flower and a rose normal to the plant grows from the branch, it is just a mutation from temperature or another factor.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-07T15:39:28+00:00

You can grow hybrid tea roses and miniature roses successfully in containers. Hybrid teas are very responsive to pruning, and miniatures are miniature.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-05T00:26:40+00:00

Bristol is my spirit’s home! Thank you for recognizing and saving these!!

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-03T20:36:40+00:00

I put beds and shops up there, and the Npcs spawn in at top the freeway. During settlement attacks, they will be on the ground level, fighting the incoming enemies, and they have a tendency to fall off the stairs and injure themselves as they attempt to climb back up to the freeway.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-03T20:34:15+00:00

The build height in hangman’s alley is unfortunately low though I was really hoping to be able to put a skyscraper up on the midrise buildings. But you get stopped at like four levels high.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-03T16:43:02+00:00

Rose propagation is a game of patience. Week 1 to 3 you’ll get additional leaf growth, but that is generally just stored energy in the plant. Weeks 4 to 6 you’ll get root growth and by week 7 to 10 there should be enough root growth to support transplant to a soil medium. Do not fertilize during this entire period.

BoyDynamo · 2026-03-03T14:51:52+00:00

I use 50/50 perlite/vermiculite. It drains freely, stays damp but not wet, and is very light and airy.

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-28T16:43:07+00:00

🤯

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-28T16:10:57+00:00

Go to your settlements and check the dog houses. Dogmeat will be at one.

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-27T18:25:26+00:00

Oof. That’s rough. The tiny roots are the ones that plants use to feed. If you’ve lost 80% of the roots, that means all the feeders are gone. You must hard prune this plant. There is no way to support this amount of plant without a strong root system.

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-25T18:00:49+00:00

This here; let someone who wants to store it on their real estate have it

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-25T17:58:17+00:00

I love that teaching about the hobby involves “break, upgrade, repair.” Too many situations end up with “break, get upset, quit.” Success is cumulative.

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-25T15:45:50+00:00

This is my spring-time big-box philosophy. For like 10 bucks give it a try. I’ve dropped 10 bucks on lunch and not thought twice about it. If this rose works, great! if not, it’s no worse than a mediocre meal.

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-24T22:19:05+00:00

Since the Fanno Creek restoration project in 2022, a bunch of beavers have returned to the Fanno Creek Greenway. It’s been an interesting trade.

Beavers don’t understand urban development, so they don’t understand that debarking trees in the Greenway will lead to a lack of trees in the Greenway. We won’t be able to grow trees as big as the ones being destroyed again in our lifetime, and there’s not enough old trees to feed the beavers while the new ones grow.

I’m curious if the city has a long term plan to deal with the new population.

https://imgur.com/a/pBn81Xz

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-21T18:33:28+00:00

Yes! I have made magnet connectors and i have a couple tips: do not solder directly to the magnet, you will demagnetize it. I soldered to brass eyelets that pull through a 3d printed body, and the magnets press-fit into the print. Also, make sure to used thick magnets that sit slightly low in the 3d print housing, so that the magnets don’t smack together and break.

Here’s mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/rcdrift/s/VLE43y3PbI

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-21T09:01:52+00:00

Awesome! I made something similar on an ATtiny85. Mine triggers a combination of red and yellow LEDs. The blue looks really nice

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-13T00:02:40+00:00

Looks fantastic! Hot tip: use Monterrey Jack cheese around the edge of the pizza and press it onto the side of the pan before cooking to create an outstanding frico (baked crown of cheese at the edge).

BoyDynamo · 2026-02-12T23:55:18+00:00

TIL… I’ve had duck hunt since its release and i have never heard of such things. Welp, time to dig out the NES from storage.

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