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June 20, 2011 - 9:25am
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Am I over feeding my starter?

I started my starter on 06/10/11 using a dark rye flour and pineapple juice method; it did well and but when I started feeding it AP flour on day 4 it did nothing for 3 days so I added half wheat flour along with the AP and off it went after 24 hours and feeding it 2x a day.  I fed it this morning and it has already tripled in volume and smells strongly like wine (no hooch though).  Am I over feeding it??  I know it will take a while more before I can use it but I also dont want to over feed it.  I keep it to the 1:1:1 ratio for feeding  of .25 oz ea by volume.

Thanks!!!

Lisa


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