Estus flask issue

I'm playing Dark Souls 3 and the blacksmith will not upgrade my estus flask. I have 4 or 5 shards and he says I don't have an ashen flask shard. From all the videos I have watched all I need is flask shards to upgrade. Something is wrong with my game.

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Noob on Dark Souls :s

Kindling allows you to get more estus flasks from a bonfire -

Default bonfire - Refills up to five estus flasks

Default bonfire with a Firekeeper - Refills up to 10 estus flasks

Kindled Bonfire - 10 estus flasks

Bonfire kindled a second time (after getting the rite of kindling) - 15 flasks

Bonfire kindled a third time - 20 flasks.

 

How to be a good phantom

Protip: Humanity can work as an estus flask when you're a phantom if you have some lying around.

 

You need the ashen estus from the start of the game. Go back to the very starting area and pick it up.