hey, just an update on what im doing. (i never made that journal as i was hoping) but after placing the stems, leaves, and trimmings into the jar with grain (everclear), i let it sit for about a week. i then boiled off most of the alcohol and had a thick green liquid on the bottom.
at this time however i was just about ready to cut my second plant so i ended up putting the leaves, stems, and trimmings from this plant into the jar and refilled it with alcohol. its been a few days now and will be boiling away the alcohol in a few more.
i had an idea tho. I checked and the boiling temperature of olive oil is 375F (191C). if i placed olive oil into the jar with the alcohol and boil way the alcohol as i did before, would everything be transfered to the oil thats in the jar? if olive oil doesnt work, im sure i can use peanut oil (which is very fatty and boils at 440F, 227C)