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The Effects of Water on the Starter
Water can conceivably kill things in the starter. It's unlikely to be adding things to the starter because we have a pretty good list of what lives in water. The other thing that can then contribute to the starter is what falls from the air into the starter. This is hypothesis C, the environment around you as you make the starter. Rob says that plants might have a particularly strong impact because of the insects they attract and the microbes on those insects. Then there's just the bacteria that are swirling around in the dust and air. Some of those come from pets. If you have pets, the majority of them usually come from your own skin and the skin of the people you live with.