Right, when M crystals alone didn't seem to work in the original jar with (what I thought was not much goo left in it), I moved the 1st round fresher EA from small jar to original jar. And in the other jar I kind of did the inverse; removing the majority of the goo to the smaller jar, decanted original extract EA off that as much as I could with syringe, added fresh EA to that and waited some days days scratching it about before *impatiently* adding M crystals. I feel like it could be either seed crystals or fresh EA just needed more time to work, dunno.

Really appreciate the advice, my notes have been a mess on evernote and I certainly will start labeling my jars. I swear I normally try to make a habit of double or triple labeling samples of things. I switched from weight to volume on liquids so I could to try to follow Cheelin's method to the letter, but I never attempted to measure each pull and thought I'd only need to loosely account for the volume right before salting (just to have visibility I was going nowhere near the citric:EA solubility max).

I attached my rough calculator spreadsheet and print out I'm using now, but I think I'm going to try fumaric acid next go.

Do you mean the consistency before doing EA pulls? No, I wouldn't say so. Since my first 1-2 tries I've been trying to keep it at a kind of stiffer play-doh thanks to all the great feedback here.