When you guys cut your plants down do you hang the whole plant or individual branches?
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I usually do individual branches
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For me it’s completely subject to plant size or shape.
If really big then I hang branches/pieces, if smaller plants like 8oz or less then i just hand it whole 
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Depends on if I need a faster or slower dry due to environment 
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Much easier to do branches.
The washer, blot, and hang easier.
My dry routine tries to avoid mold/rot.
I also need to drown some bugs.
I wet trim, also.
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I semi wet trim, just bigger leaves.
Recently bought the Cannatrol, so don’t have to worry about drying or curing anymore
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Well my drying area i can set humidity to whatever i want, problem is temperature. Its tough to keep it cool and tends to be 70-80 degrees F.
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Take what I say with a grain of salt 
The way I heard is that over 70* start breaking down terpenes (taste) and tricombs turn into to something else.
I’ve been there and probably will again sometime.
So youll want a fast dry, get it in and get it out.
Break down to limbs and hang. Air circulation but not directly,temps as cool as ya can humidity 50-55 if it doesn’t raise temp
Let others chime in 
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For me it depends on time of year.
In the summer, we have a swamp cooler and it can get my RH in the house upwards of 60% easy so I do a fan leaf trim and hang branches.
In the winter, when the heater is running and the 20 gallon humidifier in the living room struggles to maintain 30% RH I hang the whole plant and do not trim anything.
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I live in a tropical climate, high humidity all the time, temps during winter 70s during the day 60s at night. Summer temps 90s during the day 80s at night
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I usually do individual branches but some times i do like chunks of plants i actually have this drying right now
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In hot dry weather you can hang the entire plant so it doesn’t dry out as quickly. Watering the plant a few hours before harvest also lets it have more water in the plant when its cut down and it will take longer to dry.
In cold weather or places with a high humidity (and you don’t have a dehumidifier), hang the branches separately and remove fan leaves so there is less moisture around the flowers. They will dry quicker and there will be less chance of mold or fungus in the flowers.
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Depends on my drying space RH. If I’m struggling with low RH I’ll hang the whole plant, I’ll defoliate the plant for the opposite 
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I can set my relative humidity to whatever i want but my temperature is pretty high. Right now the room is at 50% and 82 degrees. Would you do individual branches or whole plant in that? And would you defoliate first?
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Whole plant hang with minimal leaf removal. Monitor the dry cycle daily with those temps
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And im looking to hang until branches snap off clean right?
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I pull them right before the snap, you’ll have to go off of feel and give the buds an occasional squeeze. What are you curing them in? I’ll toss a small hygrometer in the bag to make sure the RH doesn’t climb above 65%…62% is ideal. If they’re North of 65% toss them in a paper brown bag and in the dark for a day or so to sweat and gas off some more
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Ive got jars that i planned to cure in
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In my drying tent if I can fit whole plants then that’s what I choose. My room stays at 65 ° and the humidity is set to stay between 58 and 62. I bought a new tent and fan with carbon filter for drying. I’ve seen used tents online with fan and carbon for as low as 75 bucks
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Yes when a bud snaps off it does not take a string down the stem with it, and or when smaller branches snap. For me it takes 7 to 8 days
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