specific questions 4 days from harvest HELP PLEASE!

I will be harvesting my first 2 plants on friday. I have been reading about it all but i have a few specific questions that are not yet clear to me;
is there a right or wrong way to cut the palnt? cut from stem and dry the plant as a whole? cut each individual branch? individual bud?
After dried and stem can break do I put them in paper bags for a few days? is this an important step or a method just used by some? if so, how long?
Then once into cure, How many times a day do i open the jars and for how long each time?

Trim your leaves and hang upside down until dry. Then cure your personal. It doesn't matter if you hang each individual branch or hang it as a whole.

Yo I would whack it as a whole and dry as a whole the moisture in the stalk and stems allow for slower drying thus better smoke all around. Trim of all the big leaves soon as you cut. Hang till dry to the touch but a little spongy on the inside (stems should snap) put them in jars if you want at that point make sure to check them every 12 hours for mold, you will know when you open the jars the next day if they are still moist if so let them sit out for a couple hours or so a day depending on moisture levels. Once the moisture is all out of the nugs let them preserve in the jar. REMEMBER IMPORTANT!! 65-75 degrees and about 45-55% humidity makes for an excellent dry!! Haze2