keeve not happening. what to do next?

[sbuczkowski]

Morning all,

I presently have a 7 gallon bucket of blended juice that was started as
a keeving experiment. A successful keeve was always a long shot and,
now that I'm getting convinced that it isn't going to happen, I'm
trying to decide what to do next. The juice was purchased untreated and
I added PME and CaCl. It has had no other additions. I'm starting to
get significant fermentation from wild yeasts in the must and am trying
to decide whether to let the experiment now be a natural yeast cider
just without the keeve. If it were a smaller batch, I'd absolutely just
let it run. As I see it, I can 1) let it run as is 2) pitch a new yeast
and try to get it to take over (I have carboys with the same starting
juice inoculated with 71b-1122 and LD Carlson Cider House Select yeasts
both of which are fermenting nicely.)

So, I'm looking for some opinions: let it run or, not? If option 2,
should I sulfite it and knock down the wild population before
inoculating? How about pectic enzyme at this point: worth it or, not?

I could even split the batch into smaller volumes to let some run
naturally but, the question is still open how to treat the rest.

I'll take any thoughts.

thanks!

steven