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hunterlab

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Well I decided to go ahead and try making some kombucha tea. I picked up a bottle of Reeds gojiginger tea as it stated it had a live culture and couldn't find any original , plain tea.

I made up a starter of black tea with cane sugar and now almost a week with the reeds tea , i'am starting to see some action.

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Don't get too concerned about the size of the scoby on the first batch - it may be thin. The second and subsequent batches should form scobys much quicker and thicker (my experience).
 
speaking of first SCOBY's, I got myself a bottle of GT's today. there's a decent sized floaty in there. is that mass a scoby and if it is, could I harvest it?
 
nice! thanks for the info! I'm very excited to start my first batch, but I'll be off line for a week. when I get back I'll ask some more detail questions in this thread.
 

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