Well other choices would have included: 1. Planting autos instead of photos. 2. Growing indoors rather than outside, especially knowing the season is shorter there. 3. Planting a "fast" strain to shave a week or 2 off of flowering time. Harvesting now will leave you with a shit ton of empty trichomes. Any high you might get will be speedy and short lived.
It's still outside. We had 2 nights of frost warning in a row, but didn't happen. I will certainly keep it going as long as I can.
It won't live that long, unless unnaturally warm, which could happen due to climate change of course.