Soaking bud before alcohol extraction?

[YYZ Skinhead]

People who make oil, do you soak the trim/bud/what have you in water to get rid of the chlorophyll, and if so for how long? How do you soak it so that the trichomes cannot fall off?

 

[Bogart Mc Thunderdunk]

never done it myself but heres a basic water cure. the trics dont come off because they arent water soluble.
found this on another site:
(bailer bud)
The Water Cure
So i thought i would try it. Since i have a plant that didn't flush too well i have nothing to loose.

Here is what you need to do, to try it yourself.

1: Place your buds into a jar, and fill the jar with water. Enough that you can fully submerge the buds.
2: Place jar in a dark place.
3: Change the water every 24 hours.
4: Repeat step 3, for 7 days.
5: After 7 days, Take the buds out of the jar and dry them. Once they are dry, they will look and smoke like buds that have had a long air cure. And your once full of fertilizer buds will burn clean.

*Water cure will remove most of the terps, so you buds won't be as fragrant.

 

[Graywolf]

I don't water cure and control the water soluble pickup by freezing cured material and doing a quick wash with chilled alcohol. 3 minutes for Ethanol and 20 seconds for Isopropyl.

Here are pictures of a 3 minute quick wash and a 10 minute quick wash. Note the difference in color.