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Soliloquy · 02-10-2009, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Havilah

Mine is 9 days old and it's jelly-like on the top layer, and there are a few moldy areas forming. Is that normal? It seems gross.

It's starting to smell more kombucha-ish though. For awhile it just smelled like stinky stale tea.

Oh, and what does "growing a baby" look like? There are stringy bits around in the water, and little stringy bits trailing from the mother.

The jelly-like layer on top is the baby.

It will be semi-solid like the mother, but lighter in color and thinner, by the time the brew is finished. SCOBYs get thicker and darker w/ each use.

Moldy areas????? Green and fuzzy? If yes, throw it out, all of it, and start over w/ a fresh SCOBY! If it's just brown spots on the SCOBY that are not fuzzy, or air bubbles, that's normal.

This website has some photos (but they're not all that clear) of a moldy SCOBY. It will be fuzzy and green and/or white, like bread mold.

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