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I ended up leaving mine for pretty much exactly 2 weeks, then followed Seamonkey84's advice about the starter. So far so good, by my estimates, it's at about 7% of 12% 5 days in, with no obvious (to me) off smells/flavors.

I don't necessarily know if I need a starter, I just dont want to end up in the situation where I did something stupid, killed my harvested yeast, and pitch a slurry of garbage :p. For what it's worth How to Make Mead at Home (no idea whether this is current advice) suggests DME for a starter

Hello! A couple of days ago, I was kegging an ale and decided to harvest some yeast. I've got roughly half of a mason jar, it was SafAle US-05, and if it matters the beer was fruited with blueberries during the fermentation. Having never done mead before, I was wondering if this would be at...

and a set of quick disconnect (cam/otherwise) hardware also appreciated would be advice on how to save off retail if no one is looking to sell, been looking for a bit and haven't seen much in the way of deals

I was probably going to get both these new, so good timing! I assume its not the BME? Or does that thermowell become less useful with the ftss2?

Waltham would be rather convenient, just need to see if I can return the new one I just bought...

Millbury is only like 10 minutes from me which would make this very tempting if I was experienced enough to know what I was doing with this...had that sort of money to spend on it :P.