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Here's an updated photo for anyone interested:

No rain for a while, so I've been busy laying the blocks the last few days, will post a picture tomorrow. It has continued to lighten in color and the white blotches have all spread into each other, and it's almost all uniform in color now. Except where I had a sheet of OSB laying on it :)...

Here's a closeup attached:

As mentioned, sealer was definitely not sprayed on after the pour, just ran the sprinkler keeping it nice and wet. The water doesn't bead on the surface. It just rained yesterday and some of the light spots re-darkened, but I'm sure they will lighten up again once it dries in the sun. The...

I'm positive a sealer was not applied after the pour, and I'm not aware of anything being added to the concrete mix, other than air entrainment. I was really happy when I turned the water off and it was still nice and dark gray. Figured it had retained a bunch of moisture and cured properly...

Nothing was applied to the surface. It was just steel-trowel finished with a helicopter. They did say to keep the slab wet/cool by using the sprinkler. I think the surface was just really holding the moisture keeping it dark gray this whole time, now it's drying out. It just looks terrible though...

I'm really hoping that this is the case. I'll give it a few more days and see if it continues to blend out. Might need to get her to skate all over the whole thing :)

No, not raised bumps, just increased in area size. Hopefully the pictures show up as they can explain much better than I can :) There wasn't a curing compound applied, but the rest sounds exactly like you're explaining it.

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Just had a concrete slab poured and everything was looking OK. Kept the forms on and put the sprinkler on it for 11 days and the slab stayed a darker gray color. There wasn't any type of sealer applied to cure, just the water from the sprinkler. On the 12th day, we started to setup some corner...