I am looking for a SCOBY - Kombucha withdrawals

[alohatravelers]

Anyone know where I can find a scoby? I have plain kombucha in a jar to see if I can start one....do you think this will work? Ive read you can by one that is freeze dried but that it takes a month to activate. I live in Carlsbad if anyone has one...

[Christopher Weeks]

I've started a couple from jars of organic, living, unflavored kombucha. I don't remember exactly what I did, but there's nothing to it, really. Just leave it sitting around or maybe add it to some sweet tea.

[tadpole]

I bought a jar of GT Kombucha and let it sit in an 8 ounce Mason jar. I never added any tea or sugar to it and had a scobie in less than a week. Other people suggest using a mixture of tea and sugar to feed the scobie as it grows. I will try that next time.

[passnthru2]

you can get them on ebay..they are about 4" in diameter..

I started with a bottle commercial Kombucha, I added it to a wide mouth 1/2 gallon mason jar, 6 pac at Ace Hardware reasonable price.
long before it was done I realized i'd have to go "Large".. the jar I used formed a SCOBY and was acidic .. so I started a 2 gallon jar with it. a big glass lid on a glass jar, the far left jar in the photo, in the kitchen utensil isle at Walmart over by the canning jars.

my Continuous Culture set up.

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I got the glass cylinder Continuous Culture jar off Amazon, i'm an amputee, one handed, it was hard to deal with big jars.. this system is really easy and convenient. it's in a small cupboard and I heat it with a little ceramic heater in the winter.. i'm going to box in that shelf with a drop down door to make a work space.