Flowers of Wine?

[CowboyPhil]

I made 6 gallons of watermelon must, to this must I added, tannin,pectic enzyme,acid bled,sugar, and 6 campden tablets, a sterilezed mesh bag and the remneants of the watermelons. When I opened the primary I found white circlular powdery like substance on the surface of the bag. Could this be Flowers of Wine, there is no yeast added yet. I just want to be sure I have not wasted the whole batch and what would have caused it.

 

[gaudet]

Haven't seen that before... Did you take pictures? Could it possibly be that you didn't stir up the must enough to dissolve your additions?? I think that I would pitch yeast and let her rip to see what happens. Your campden should have taken care of any nasties................

 

[Wade E]

Sounds like you didnt crush the camden tablets good enough or you have fruit in there that needs to be punched down much more often. Pics would help.

 

[joeswine]

FLOWER POWER

yes that is what that is ,re rack the wine into a sanitized vessel leaving the flowers and some of the old top layer of the wine behind,add a1/8 teaspoon of kmet and let it sit,after 24hrs should be ok to do what you need to do....had this problem myself before...