Seeds in bud, want to keep viable

Unfortunately, to harvest mature, viable seeds, you often have to sacrifice the buds holding the seeds. Seeds need to be at least brownish to be better than 50% viable, so going on this, you still need 2-3 weeks of seed maturation to go, by which time your buds will be over ripe. The question then becomes, "do I sacrifice my prime buds in order to harvest a few seeds of questionable parentage that may or may not produce reasonable plants once cultivated?" If you are after seeds that will be close to 100% viable, you will need to leave them for the longest possible time, that is, until they get properly shiny brown (light brown at a minimum, but always shiny), which they will do if left long enough. Seeds take between 4 and 7 weeks from when pollinated until becoming mature and what I call "confidently viable". These comments are based on 30+ years of selective home breeding and collecting tens of thousands of seeds in that time.