well this is my first offical grow so they are at day 4 of drying upside down now and they feel nice and dry and crisp but people say to wait until you bend the smaller stems and here a snap sound until you start curing thats like 5-7 days (if you start curing to early you invite mold in and you DONT want that) then you cure for as long as you like (the longer the better) i would say to do 2 weeks min though (you can still take bits out of the jar and smoke them