Thanks for the input everyone. I'm going to give this thicker not covered by water FF a try. I was backslopping but not sure if over night was enough time for all the benefits of FF. Please correct me if I'm wrong, backslopping is fine if you already have a good ferment going but waiting 3 more days after backslopping would be better. Also where do you all keep your FF? I really don't want to keep mine in my kitchen. Can it be kept in the garage or shed during the winter?
It's totally fine to backslop and wait overnight and then feed in the morning. The point was to let every batch get more than 2 days before backslopping and refreshing again, so that you are only making more seconday batches every 3 ish days.