Any use for my rotted buds! Cold water extraction?

So I didn't have the heart to toss out my rotted buds. After coming home from a family vacation, I found a couple of my Kolas covered in Botrytis " Bud rot.... A friend told me I could still us these in my cold water extraction. opinions please.....

Even with water extraction you will be subjecting yourself to spores and in the end its safer to toss it than it is to chance it .. Just my humble opinion but then again I deal with ill patients and do not have the best immune system . I look at it like food since it is being consumed internally one way or another , and we sure do not eat moldy food . Sometimes its cut out but even then we are subjecting ourselves to spores and more

God that sucks.

Line your trashcan with them...

any other believers in hydrogen peroxide? I was also told to spray my buds down with a 3% solution to oxidize the mildew spores that might be hiding around.

That bud can be salvaged for topicals but if you try and smoke it it's going to taste like a field of hay even if you killed every spore. But where talking solvents, winterizing, saline wash, activated carbon..... do you really want to make use of your plant even if you can't smoke it? I've run trim that got stuffed in a box too soon but I twerked it into psoriasis ointment I could never afford to buy if it was made from oil....

Sorry about your loss, I read to many threads on accidents, last one was 60 grams of oil with vac pump oil on it. Came home and tried to evap my dam solvent that's been sitting since last nice and spilled it into spent green kief... I almost had a stroke i wanted to quit the oil game for a split second.

ya a compost would love them. that or the trash is all you can do with them. by NO means do you ever want to use buds with rot for ANYTHING.
sorry to see you got the bud rot, better luck next time!

Botrytis doesn't produce known aflatoxins, but some folks can have a Type 1 allergic reaction to it and it tastes like mold.

We've had good luck removing the taste and smell filtering down to 0.2 microns, using a syringe filter.

Sorry for your loss........toss them, don't chance it.