Guest guest Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 Hi Lawrence.... Easy enough problem to solve. Next time you start a brew weigh the mother SCOBY down with a small glass or even a 1 cup size empty canning jar. It will keep the mother on the bottom and you will once again get unattached babies.... Gayle On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:11 PM, lawrencetenzer wrote: > Hello group, > When I brew my kt, the scoby used to fall to the bottom of my sun tea > jar and a perfect baby scoby would form across the top of the brew. > Mother at the bottom and baby at the top. Lately, when I drop the > mother in, it does not fall to the bottom. It floats to the top. > When > the new baby forms, it is in competition with the mother because both > are occupying the same space. The finished brews are good, but the > mother and baby are attached together. The baby is always very thin > and often only a small piece is produced instead of a full round > robust > offspring. They look very inadequate and I have been discarding them. > I am concerned because I want to have a few back up scobys but these > babies do not look like they would be able to make a good kt brew. > Lawrence > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 Lawrence, My scoby has always floated. Usually when the room temp where I make them is a bit cool the babies will be thin and weak looking. I usually just throw the mother and weak baby back into the new brew. kombucha tea@...: ltenzer@...: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:11:08 +0000Subject: Baby Scoby Issue Hello group,When I brew my kt, the scoby used to fall to the bottom of my sun tea jar and a perfect baby scoby would form across the top of the brew. Mother at the bottom and baby at the top. Lately, when I drop the mother in, it does not fall to the bottom. It floats to the top. When the new baby forms, it is in competition with the mother because both are occupying the same space. The finished brews are good, but the mother and baby are attached together. The baby is always very thin and often only a small piece is produced instead of a full round robust offspring. They look very inadequate and I have been discarding them. I am concerned because I want to have a few back up scobys but these babies do not look like they would be able to make a good kt brew.Lawrence _________________________________________________________________ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_1120\ 08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 i have been watching my scobys and think that i have figured out at least one factor in the sink or float issue. new, one later scobys almost always sink, but as layers develop, air gets trapped in the layers causing it to float, (and even levitate! ok, not really, but portions of it ride an air bubble above the brew). yes, you can weigh it down, but that whole process is a little awkward, and if your scoby is as wide as your jar, it can actually develop an air bubble under it even with the jar on it. my new solution, all scobys get a hole punched through the middle while i have them out for bottling the kt. this allows the air to pass through and my scobys are hanging out closer to the bottom, allowing a nice new scoby to form on the top. if they start floating again, i will poke 'em again. i need to do this with my 10+ scoby hotel, as i have to push them down twice a day or so, but havent gotten around to taking them out and performing surgery. good luck! dl ________________________________ From: Gayle Marks <gsmarks@...> kombucha tea Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:05:51 PM Subject: Re: Baby Scoby Issue Hi Lawrence.... Easy enough problem to solve. Next time you start a brew weigh the mother SCOBY down with a small glass or even a 1 cup size empty canning jar. It will keep the mother on the bottom and you will once again get unattached babies.... Gayle On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:11 PM, lawrencetenzer wrote: > Hello group, > When I brew my kt, the scoby used to fall to the bottom of my sun tea > jar and a perfect baby scoby would form across the top of the brew. > Mother at the bottom and baby at the top. Lately, when I drop the > mother in, it does not fall to the bottom. It floats to the top. > When > the new baby forms, it is in competition with the mother because both > are occupying the same space. The finished brews are good, but the > mother and baby are attached together. The baby is always very thin > and often only a small piece is produced instead of a full round > robust > offspring. They look very inadequate and I have been discarding them. > I am concerned because I want to have a few back up scobys but these > babies do not look like they would be able to make a good kt brew. > Lawrence > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi and EveryOne, It seems to me, although I can't prove it, that the more SCOBY's on top of the brew, ones without holes, the more carbonation builds up in the brew. For example, I usually use several layers of SCOBY's on top of my fermenting KT and it has so much carbonation by the time it has fermented a week, that I never have needed to do a secondary fermentation. Perhaps when you make a hole in each SCOBY you are also creating a way for the natural carbonation to escape? I've noticed that my SCOBY's sink if the liquid I put them in is cold, not room temperature but actually cold....not sure if this is why they sink but over the years it seems that the ones that sank were also ones in cold liquid....just an observation. Peace, LOve and Harmony, Bev Kombucha Manna Drops 100% Certified Organic Kombucha Drops http://www.bestweb.net/~om/kmi > > > Hello group, > > When I brew my kt, the scoby used to fall to the bottom of my sun tea > > jar and a perfect baby scoby would form across the top of the brew. > > Mother at the bottom and baby at the top. Lately, when I drop the > > mother in, it does not fall to the bottom. It floats to the top. > > When > > the new baby forms, it is in competition with the mother because both > > are occupying the same space. The finished brews are good, but the > > mother and baby are attached together. The baby is always very thin > > and often only a small piece is produced instead of a full round > > robust > > offspring. They look very inadequate and I have been discarding them. > > I am concerned because I want to have a few back up scobys but these > > babies do not look like they would be able to make a good kt brew. > > Lawrence > > > > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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