Landscaper
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pH has to affect the process in some way... Any thoughts?
=Do not use distilled at first! It will draw more chlorophyll than ever. Use normal, ice saturated, cold as possible water. The pre freeze, and minimal agitation, will get you to where chilled, distilled water can be used to wash the glands off through the sieve they are collected on. If plant matter us ground to the same micron size as resin glands, any screen size will be defeated....
=How do you figure that distilled water collects more chlorophyll than any other water? Also, I never talked about grinding my material, so I'm confused about what you mean when you say, "if plant matter is ground".
Chlorophyll is soluble in water, and the further left you go on u/thepainteddoor's chart:
RO > Distilled > RO > tap > spring.
The less dissolved solids there are within the water. 0 TDS water will aggressively take on water solubles, compared to already saturated water. I'm not a chemist and my understanding is basic at best, but I hope this helps explain what u/SonicXtraX was trying to illustrate.
A note on the 'grinding' - as the ice makes the plant material brittle, it's easy to over-agitate and inherently break/grind material to a finer consistency than initially intended.