I had a great result whole plant drying last year, they big'ish plants and I whole dried for about 3 - 3.5 weeks and then took half a week to trim into jars, they were practically starting to cure at that stage. But for me, whatever I do is nerve wracking that I may get it wrong and get mold occurring. I think too for whole plant drying there must be a conducive environment which I guess mine is, but anyway that's just where I am most comfortable.I keep flip flopping on how I’m gonna harvest this stuff . One minute I’m gonna selectively take buds next whole plant .