No you don't cut the white hairs off. !982, I'm not saying anything is wrong with your method but like lots of stuff on any forum everybody seems to have a way they like. Lot's of times it's seems like the only way they tried also. But I would put more air through them. The denser the bud the more I would want to dry them as fast as I could (but with no heat). I've hung them in my shed for over a week (outside grow) and in a closet with an open door with a fan blowing on them pretty good. We used to have a really nice clothes drier that had a rack you could put in it so it would not tumble. I ran it with no heat and it dried it out really quick. 1 hr maybe? but was still a bit wet inside and was not complete. I saw a rubbermaid setup with a fan that looks pretty good and quick, I think he claims 3 day's to dry. Now that's not cured by any means, and these other dring ways are not either. But like 1982 said when the stem brakes they are they are ready to start curing. Seem to me after 2-3 months. It really starts to maa difference. You can cut the buds apart some from the main stalks and they will dry quicker. The less stalk there is to dry the quicked they will. I guess to sum it up the quicker dryng methods did not seem to make much of a difference. It was all it the time it sat to cure. If you make hash the traditional middle eastern way not only does the weed need to cure some, them the hash material also has to cure 2-3 months or more. And it does help also, not because I waited that long to smoke it. But I had enough to last that long. haha