Cold Weather Effects?

Lol yea im very anxious but im holding out now, i did some LST as in the picture above so the plant should be gettin better light in the places it wasnt before. I cut off like a branch or 2 earlier before i had a microscope to see if ready, well i let it dry for a week and its been jar for like 2 days, its really dry, like almost crumbles to the touch and what i noticed is nuggets i buy seem to be a little more flexible and not as crumply as what mine is resulting in, am i doing something wrong? I hang for a 5-7 days and jar it for cure