first dry untill it is brittle on the outside, roughly 2 weeks in a dry room, then cure in a sealed glass jar (stash jar w/ cork) and open up every day for 2-5 minutes, do this at least 2 weeks, then, if you want full potency wate 6 months, but this requeires to much patients! what I would recomend is start smoking at 2 weeks, but continue curring process for the bud that is left so at the end it is up to full.