Quote Originally Posted by Weezard

Now no forget to come back and tell us what you found out.
Weigh the buds, weigh the resin, weigh the oil, please.

I trust that you used very cold water?
That's critical for making bubble.
It makes the glands break free, easily.

I will most definitely post the results when everything is said and done, and maybe an update in between.

You also have a good idea with just using the bubble hash for the oil extraction, I will have to try that next time.
This time though I think I will stick with my original experiment which is just doing the ethanol extraction on the entire amount of plant material without separating anything first.

So instead of using cold water to break off the trichomes or glands I used hot water initially which was geared more towards removing as much chlorophyll as possible, and hopefully a good amount of pesticide residue. I was thinking of it like making a cup of tea. The hot water extracts that stuff better and quicker I thought. It's not hot now though I'm just going to leave it at room temperature for a day or two.

Then ill use the coffee filters because I don't want to separate the trichomes or glands from the leaf/bud plant material. I want to keep all of the thc containing material together because its all going to get washed with the ethanol. I only want to extract the chlorophyll and other impurities and wash off the pesticides with the water when it is strained from all the thc containing material. I'm even going to throw the filter in with the ethanol after the straining process just to make sure all of the stuff that got stuck to the filter will be stripped of the goodies (hopefully). I think I will post the results and updates on the other thread I created which is under the title of "Water wash before ethanol extraction of cannabis oil?" Just because I don't want to hijack this thread I don't think that would be fair to the original poster. Feel free to check that one out tho man. I really will be interested to see how this experiment goes. I really have no idea what to expect. Ill take some pictures and post those as well after I figure that all out because I'm still new to these boards and I'm still getting my sea legs as they say, haha!