Hi Barb, I see you do an excellent job on answering the comments! I love the blog and appreciate your work! My starter is on his 3rd week. I have tried in the past and I failed. This time I won't give up. It, as usual (I have been studying a lot), doubled in size on the second day and then went dormant and has been since then. It looks pretty and smells good. I also just fixed the room temperature. I live in seattle, it is getting cold and my house is even colder. Now I bought a seed germinating mat and it has been doing the trick - my starter has this little "warm" house now. I changed this 3 days ago - Today I saw some bubbles. BUT I wondered this: I only feed it once a day. Then I see some people saying they feed twice, and I read here that yes, I should be feeding twice under room temp. Did I understand correctly? Should I start feeding my new starter twice a day so that he can start having more activity? -- I change jars every day - 25g starter, 50 water, 50 flour. If I do start feeding it twice, do I need to discard both times? If I don't, I just add the water and flour same way? (50g, 50g)? (I can't wait for your answer!) Thank you very much, Marilia.

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