Curing Questions

These are prolly stupid questions, but I kinda screwed up my last cure and I wanna make sure I do it right this time.

1. When it's dry enough for jars, do you just load them loosley?
2. When you open the jars, do you re-arrange the buds or just leave them like they are?

Thanks in advance.

Hi mate the way i do it is i load the jars 3/4 full then before and after i burp the jars i give it a good old shake to move the buds about in the jar , you can manually move them around but a shake is good enough , ill check the buds n make sure there not too wet and need drying abit longer and burp for about 15 - 20 minutes each day for at least a week - 10 days before i start smoking it , then once i start smoking it i just leave the jar open when i have a joint and close it afterwards , after about 2 - 3 weeks the taste will improve and the bud gets slightly stronger imo

Dont compact the buds.... Fill the jar loosely, I open the jars at least twice a day, dump the buds out onto paper plates, let them sit for 10 mins or so.. Then mix them up and put them back into the jars...Do this for a couple of weeks and youll be A-OK....

or just dump them onto something so all the bud gets adequite air on it so no mold will build up to be 100% sure

Ok, cool...I guess that's what I did wrong then. I didn't really cram the buds in the jars, but I didn't move them around any either.
Everything toward the middle was kinda funky. Didn't really see any mold, but it smelled like it. Thanks everyone, great advice.