Grey Wolf,
I always enjoy your posts. Informative and always backed with solid science in a world of hearsay and unsubstantiated opinion. You are a boon to the community and I thank you for being generous with your knowledge to keep us lesser mortals from running amok.
Bear with me as my grasp of science extends not much further than the construction of stink-bombs in high school lab class.
After a microscopic examination to determine that aspergillis is not present and the infected bud is affected with no more than common powdery mildew or botrytis, an ethenol wash/soak would kill active mold spores and a .02 micron filtering would remove their dead carcasses from solution, thus rendering the result safe for personal consumption by a healthy individual?
Could one assume then that vaporizing the resulting oil would add an additional layer of safety by killing any remaining spores in the event of cross contamination by carelessness in the process?
In short, just how sturdy are these simple molds to disinfection?
Chucking out lbs. of weed for something that can easily be remedied with care would be like killing my wife because she came down with a cold.
More often than not, I would seek an alternative modus operendi
PS. If you have a resource link handy that explains different simple vacuum filtering processes and equipment for dummies outside of a syringe filter, I and, I'm sure many others, would be greatly indebted to you.
Weed...turning stoners into scientists.
