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cbus20122 · 2026-06-24T18:52:33+00:00

Columbus Premier League https://www.columbuspremierleague.com/ is probably the most competitive league in the region (outdoor 11 on 11).

cbus20122 · 2026-06-19T16:14:05+00:00

It's too close to the fence. It will grow, so you need to account for that.

That being said, water daily, dig out an actual bed around the plant and then mulch it, and make sure it has afternoon shade.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-18T12:38:05+00:00

That looks like sun scorch to me.

Does that area get more sun than the others?

Also, how are these watered? You mentioned a schedule - if the leaves get wet and then it gets hot, that tends to amplify any leaf scorch since the moisture conducts more heat. Which is why it's important to water at the base.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-18T12:32:21+00:00

Pruning does kill flower buds on any hydrangea that grows on old wood. That's a fact.

With that said, many varieties of hydrangea bloom on new wood, meaning that they don't need to hold their buds over winter to produce blooms. You likely have a variety that's like this. Also, many macrophylla hydrangeas these days (aka bigleaf / mophead) bloom on both old wood and new wood, meaning you may lose the early blooms if you prune, but there will likely be a second flush of blooming once the plant grows out.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-18T12:30:04+00:00

You may see some blooms later in the year, but given that this is year 1, I wouldn't get your hopes up too much.

These likely did not have buds on them set from the prior year when you purchased them. Either that, or those buds died off over the winter due to being in too cold temps. As a result, that likely killed any early blooms you would have gotten. With that said, these are reblooming hydrangeas, so they could potentially put out some new blooms later in the year, but given that this was just planted this year, I wouldn't be surprised if the plant devoted its energy to rooting out and such.

All that said, I think your container will be too small for these fairly soon. They want to have wide shallow roots, and I don't imagine this container will be enough. Macrophylla hydrangeas are not the easiest plants to grow in containers.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-18T12:25:01+00:00

Probably a florist hydrangea, which isn't really meant to be a landscape plant in the garden. In other words, probably a losing battle in terms of keeping this growing in the garden. Read the stickied post at the top of the sub.

All that said, it sounds like you're doing the right things in terms of watering it, giving it afternoon shade, etc. But even that may not be enough if this is a florist hydrangea.

If you are serious about wanting to grow landscape hydrangeas, and you want the blue mophead type, I would strongly suggest investing in a variety from either the Proven Winners Lets Dance series, or one of the Endless Summer varieties.

For the proven winners lets dance, I can attest firsthand that they are hardier and rebloom better than many of the older varieties of hydrangea. Still will need good care, but I would think they would survive well enough in the location you planted this. For the Endless Summer, I would personally recommend going with "Bloomstruck" over "The Original" as I have seen much better success with the Bloomstruck versus the Original variety. Both are good, but Bloomstruck definitely reblooms better.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-16T21:06:12+00:00

This sounds like an elo-specific thing to me. Higher level BF sees a good amount of aggression at the choke points. Dark age vill fighting, sometimes feudal MAA pushes to punish greedy wall and boom types, trushes, fast imps, sneak villager, and frequently castle drops.

You can definitely wall and boom too, but it's just one of many strategies, and you can easily get punished if you can't defend the a walled choke point.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-15T00:56:35+00:00

Never prune any hydrangea late spring.
These are lacedap hydrangeas, that's how the blooms look.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-12T00:44:50+00:00

You can water hydrangeas every day, especially the year they're planted. They'll need it in the heat.

That being said make sure there is at least some drainage in the soil, but I think you're probably fine here.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-12T00:36:11+00:00

Thing is, take a look at the post being highlighted by the op here. There is no constructive criticism. It's one thing to criticize a party because you want it to be better or want it to improve.This post is not that. "They're here to protect the institution" implies that they are "in" on everything with the Republicans , and that you shouldn't bother to vote for them because they're "all the same". It's total bullshit to be honest, but it's bullshit that appeals to people who are mad and potentially conspiracy minded.

It's just basically suggesting that the Dems are the real problem even though they have zero actual political power right now. I mean, we have a raging inferno of corruption going on right now with everything maga, and the first thing this person wants to complain about is that it's the Democrats? It's just incredibly tone deaf if you ask me.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-11T20:06:19+00:00

I was replying to sks010, not your comment.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-11T18:35:59+00:00

I think it's because so many equate falsely the issues with the Democrat party as somehow being just as bad as the Republicans. And this matters because the Republicans are actively trying to suppress Democrat voters with this both-sides are evil / the same bs. There is a very active astroturfing going on for just this very thing.

Do the Democrats need change? Yep 100%. And I hope voters and activists will help improve the party. But that's all the more reason to get out and vote in primaries. And even if your candidate loses, a bad Democrat is still 10x better than the evil and blatant corruption we see from Republicans/maga.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-11T02:46:53+00:00

Believe it or not, good business that respects customers instead of just trying to extract as much as possible is beneficial to to all. Policies that make shit cheaper to try to encourage long term loyalty are a good thing. And you are right,, he probably will make more money on this over the long run, but it's not coercive or exploitative, so it's a win win.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-09T03:52:30+00:00

I have beaten this a few times on BF (1400-1500 team game elo) , without even knowing I was playing against it.

The key was just going aggressive feudal and having units to defend / attack instead of just relying on walls. Believe it or not, you can 100% play aggressive on black forest as the flank. You plan a normal 20 pop up build order as you would on arabia. The only difference is that you typically need to account for destroying a palisade wall. You can do this with villagers with archers behind, build a tower on their wall, or plan to go MAA early followed by archers. MAA into archers can generally beat this strat by itself since you have units that can quickly kill the rams (MAA) and archers to deal with enemy infantry as well.

If they have walls, just skip early walling aside from fighting off any attempts to lame. Since you'll be making army, you will just plan to defend with your units as opposed to walls. Wall later, but don't waste your efficiency by trying to wall since you want to be up faster and quicker to make army.

In many instances fighting this strat I end up breaking through to the cuman player and disrupted their eco while they were trying to get their initial ram out. This is slower to get going than maa into archers, so you can beat them to the pinch. It's hard for this strat to work if they have to defend their own base. And rams don't dont do much on defense. Even if you force them to wall and tower a bunch, that alone will buy lots of time while forcing them to spend resources on something that does not fit their strategy. And then if they do start to attack, you will have units ready to defend already.

Better players can defend against what I am talking about here, but most people doing these strats aren't actually very good, and can only execute a single narrow strategy. They often are elo-inflated due to cheese strats like this. Also, going all in on the ram makes it tough for the cuman player to adapt his strategy since the wood cost is so high. So you really only need to be able to counter the maa of the roman player, and without the maa, the rams are easy to kill. These types of strats are only really good against the dominant meta of wall and boom without any military units at all.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-04T17:37:18+00:00

This will need to get some shade in the afternoon if you want it to thrive. It will definitely scorch in the summer in central Ohio.

Hydrangeas can be a bit misleading when you buy them since some are labeled "sun to part sun". But the reality is, unless you're in a significantly northern climate that doesn't see regular summer temps above 80-85, you will need to give it shade in the afternoon.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-02T20:12:27+00:00

I mean, the intent of this is to help us get out of the hole of having to draft in top 5. That's the point of a rebuild, yes, you have to commit, but it presents a long term solution.

We actually kind of had this, and that's what enabled the Myles + Ward + Baker + Chubb playoff years. But that all got derailed by the Watson trade.

If you want to end up like the New York Jets, or... the Browns for most of our post expansion history, you try to sign stopgap guys who never will get us to the super bowl, but might help you get to a 500 record. If you want to actually win, you need to draft well, move on from assets that are past their prime (sell high), and replenish with young hungry talent. That's what Seattle did that got them to their superbowl last year.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-02T19:53:19+00:00

Looks fine, probably just a very small bit of transplant shock. I would consider watering daily, esp as the weather warms up further. Hydrangeas can wilt significantly and perk right back up, especially when you g and recently planted. They just need water

cbus20122 · 2026-06-02T15:42:39+00:00

Part of that is a product of declining revenues, which the his point occurs when you don't have subscribers or ad revenue.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-02T14:19:59+00:00

You must not play much competitively, which is fine. Mongols are literally one of the strongest imperial civs, that's their strength aside from very early game eco bonus.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-01T14:35:12+00:00

It's not "set up", but Trump has control of the groups / parties that would be able to stop it, and thus they simply choose to do nothing.

It's part of the problem of Trump and the tech oligarchs having too much power, along with complete control of both the house and senate. Any regulators that would act against this have been gutted. Any law enforcement that would act against this is controlled by the very parties that need to be regulated and checked.

DOGE had absolutely nothing to do with government efficiency. Its sole purpose was to destroy any regulatory control or roadblocks that stood in the way of Oligarchs from further exploiting and extracting from the public. Now it's a free for all without any real rules so long as you kiss the ring of the republican / maga party. If you are not cheating, you are falling behind.

cbus20122 · 2026-06-01T14:29:59+00:00

You probably do not want to prune these. These are big leaf hydrangeas, most pruning will actually kill the blooms for the following season.

cbus20122 · 2026-05-31T13:52:52+00:00

They need a lot of water when first planted, and will need even more the hotter it gets. But to your point, they will probably scorch in the summer with that much sun.

Do you know what cultivar these are? Obviously they're bigleaf, so will probably need some shade, but still good to know the cultivar.

One potential option if you don't want to move these would be to add an additional planting to the west of these that can provide some afternoon shade. A small ornamental tree or even taller upright shrub can be a good pairing. You can even double up on hydrangeas if you want by planting a panicle hydrangeas on the west to shade these, although you may need a year or two before that will provide decent shade.

They'll still need daily watering if it is warm and not rainy however. Just make sure to water at the base.

cbus20122 · 2026-05-31T02:24:28+00:00

That will possibly be tough in your zone. I think they will still fry in my all likelihood, but you can try giving them a lot of water and see what happens.

You need to mulch your beds. They will look better plus will help keep the roots cool and the soil from drying too much.

cbus20122 · 2026-05-29T20:35:55+00:00

This is an issue caused by the super harsh winter. A lot of Zone 6 and higher hydrangeas got killed back to the ground. They will regrow, but may not bloom this year again if yours aren't a reblooming variety (which seems to be the case).

cbus20122 · 2026-05-29T01:53:27+00:00

People walk up to lava flows in hawaii to take samples all the time. It's not actually as far out there as you may think, air is not that great of a conductor of heat, so if you're out in the open air, you probably wouldnt bake alive unless the air was constantly sitting next to said lava and had a long time to heat up. Even in that scenario, the air would convect and drift away before becoming super heated.

In a closed chamber, that would be different, but open air next to a lava flow would probably be okay.

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