Has anyone kept a plant growing in 12/12 until it was dead naturally, if so what happened, what was the bud like, pictures, if that hasnt been done then i think i may do it so if you havent heard of it would you be interested in seeing the results
Yes but worse, if you let it grow till it dies you will greatly reduce the high, there is a proper time to harvest and harvesting before cost you weigh and high, harvest after you lose quality.
i assumed the quality would lack greatly but did not know the hermie part, what would the finished herb look like considering i trim every dead leaf off and trim as good as possible, i know not as good as normal but couldnt it possibly be good wouldnt it just die and dry naturallty and i could smoke it
Whatever, if you want to let it die then do it, just don't expect anyone to clap and say ol what a bright fella he was, or otherwords its a stupid idea and why would you do it. It would be like letting tomatoes go until they rot and then scooping them up for dinner, ah yummy.
well im not going to let them die all the way just let them get really reall mature a few weeks lone atleast
You're just proposing what Mother Nature does all the time, letting them grow until end of life. Think about it for a sec - Nature doesn't care how high you get, what color the trichromes are, etc... Nature has only one concern, survival of the species until the next growing season. And that requires the production of healthy seeds. Resin, THC, flavor... these are all just means to an end, things that happen on the road to making seeds. Granted, these are things that our species happens to be very fond of, but the plant doesn't really care. That's why mankind has to breed the plant to produce what we want. Left to it's own devices, it (the plant) would revert back to "ditch-weed" or hemp-like sturdier plants within several generations. So the only real benefit to what you're suggesting, as I see it, is if you want to make seeds. Anybody think I'm missing something here?
well the thing i was wantgin to find out is how swollen the buds get im sure they would be bigger than normal if i left it longer than ur suppose to, am i wrong here ?
Ah... I get your question. Yeh, maybe the buds would be bigger, sure. But not worth the effort because, as the others pointed out, the trichromes would all have degraded and the cannabidol compounds degraded. As I understand it, when the trichromes start turning cloudy, this is THC building up. When the trichromes start turning amber this is when THC is breaking down. This is sometimes desirable because it breaks down into a host of other related cannabidols that don't necessarily get you high, but change the manner in which you get high. But what you're suggesting, I think, is going down that road a little too far, by which point all of the cannabidols, including THC, have degraded to the point of nothing. Disclaimer: this is from a guy who has read entirely too much on the subject and, in all honesty, hasn't been high in almost ten years (ahem, not by choice, mind you).