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may sound a daft question but can you leave plants flowering for too long?

Growing under lights a plant reaches a point where approx 2/3 of the pistils brown off at the same time - this is when you harvest it. If left longer, the main leaves, which are the plant's power-house start to die off, so new bud production die off too - hence there's no advantage to leaving the plant going.

In the wild, in the northern hemisphere, a plant will start to die off when the temperate drops. In this instance, if you don't harvest in time, you'll lose the lot.

So yes, you can let a plant flower too long. The skill is in letting it flower just the right amount of time.

cheers for the answer dogstar. using natural light, at the flowering stage for the autoflowers others will obviously take longer, fingers crossed