How long does a mother culture remain viable, on average?
– RSPONSE: AS WHOLE, AND AS ONE UNIT; SCOBY WOULD NEVER DIE… HER CELLS WOUD !! Speaking of “Every living organism has a certain life span” You are looking at it in a wrong way! You are not putting in consideration a very major fact! SCOBY is a mass, and a “Colony” containing of billions & billions of “Independent” bacteria and yeast. How can you see if a few bacteria or yeast die? You would not be able to. They constantly are dying and being reproduced and replenished, and consequently the SCOBY would look the same, or perhaps larger and healthier! Don’t compare it to our body, though we shed our dead “Cells” at all times and replenish them too, but the difference between us and the SCOBY is that our “System” is the one that fails us and kill us! Our hearts and livers, along with other organs fail. Our system is complex, and SCOBY’s simple “One Cell” organism; billions of them. Each cell would die eventually, however the production is faster the dying, that’s why we see it to become la
