Hello! So, I'm on Day 9. I've been feeding diligently, twice daily, 12 hours apart. With every feeding, I see plenty of bubbles (it looks like one of your Day 3 photos). But 2 issues: 1) It doesn't seem to be rising (yet), and 2) it seems to have lost the tangy aroma it had around days 2 thru 4. It still smells pleasantly yeasty... but I really loved the sour aroma it had earlier. Can it get that back? I imagine I need to continue being patient with the rising bit. I did have one small snafu (day 4 or 5, I think) where I inadvertently discarded 113g instead of 226g, and fed the 226g with the usual 113g each of flour and water. I remedied this at the next feeding. Doesn't seem like that would have a huge effect, but maybe I'm wrong. It still bubbles every feeding, just doesn't seem to rise. Would doing a feeding with whole wheat help either of these things? Was hoping to bake this weekend, but not looking like my starter will be ready.

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