i've let plants go until they died. funny thing, i still got just as high.
can you really convince yourself that pot is no good if it grows too long? if it does break down, it breaks down into CBD's. cannabis has more than one active ingredient. most of them are DESIRABLE.
i have NEVER seen, nor smoked "over ripened" bud. if someone can show me some it may help.
No, well.. what I meant was.. that I've read quite a few articles from books where they state that.. leaving buds on the plant that are ripe, instead of picking them like you should probably go ahead and do.. but leaving them to continue in the flowering process.. instead of picking them when they're at their highest ripeness point.. leaving them to flower for more days will just make the THC breakdown into other less desirable chemicals. Like CBD and such..
That's what I was trying to say actually. Broke down into a summary.. THC will begin to breakdown and lose its potency.. and will also breakdown into other less desirable chemicals if left to flower.. past its harvest window.
For example, lets say you have an 8 week indica. Well, if you were to let it flower for 10 weeks for example, that extra two weeks isn't doing any good for the buds. It's simply making the buds lose potency and making the THC in the trichs.. breakdown to less desirable chemicals that aren't as potent as the THC its self.
Hope that cleared that up for anyone..
But yeah, I see what your saying fdd2blk. I just thought that CBD was a less potent chemical than THC was. I could be wrong I guess though.. nevermind.
peace.