I've got something like this, I'll be trying a pyrethrin spray if my next batch of AACT doesn't help. Hope neem works for you, I'm sure it'd be effective.
That said, enjoy your sourdough! I buy my heirloom cultures, I recently got a whole wheat sourdough (Desem) culture. Delicious. Biscuits made with it taste like Cheez-its somehow without cheese. nom nom. Muffins, rolls, you can even make delicious sourdough cookies. Gotta love cultured foods :)
Up to you, putting starter in the fridge is optional and only recommended if you're an infrequent baker (though, there is some debate on this too, some people always use fridge starter)
But anyway, to answer your question, you leave it out until atleast that 6th day because you're trying to...
I don't know how much money Kelp4less pays Google, but it must be bunches because it has been my goto ad on every website my phone has gone to for weeks :-/
Received my commercial "air compressor" to make aact. It's probably overkill, but I figure it can be adapted to other projects as needed.
I'm going to connect aquaria tubing to porous soaker tubing, the same stuff I use for my tomato trees. This will produce a lot of bubbles :)
I also...
Minor update.
Ordered fabric to make pots
I planted all of my stray tomato plants into tomato trees and doubled my ghetto shadecloth operations to make room for more seedlings.
I have some wilds popping :) can`t wait for them to sprout.
I remembered what my mystery coded seedlings were...