Do your trimming before you hang them. If smell is an issue you can use a blower with an odorsok on it as an air scrubber to cut down the smell, and fill your house with air fresheners for the few days it will take before tehy are dry enough to jar up. In fact, when they are ALMOST dry, you can put them in a paper bag for the last day or 2 before they go from dry to the touch to stem snapping dry.