I wouldn’t dry in a paper bag. The paper pulls moisture from the buds very quickly. Also, I find dry trimming to be nicer than wet trimming. Wet trimming for me gives the buds a strange fresh cut flavor kind of like fresh cut grass. Maybe that’s just me
I think it's just you. It takes up to 5 weeks to get them dry enough to put in cans for burping sometimes and they are still moist enough to form one big mass at first. I use plastic tobacco cans for that as they have smooth walls on the inside and a partly filled can will just slide right out into a tray for gentle breaking up. Air dry for 15 min then back in the can. I'm smoking 5 yo bud that still smells heavenly when you crack the lid. I have a dozen strains at hand so never get bored with my bud. Turn a nice colour with a proper cure too. No green to be seen and I've been doing it like this for almost 20 years. I tried hanging and dry trimming and did not like it. I don't like trimming at all with my arthritis so a lot gets a light trim and frozen fresh for making into edibles. Freezer is getting crowded.
Just the best colas get cured up for smoking.
I put the paper bags in a container after the first week to slow the drying more too. Tried from the start but too wet and some got mould but they lose a lot of weight in a week but nothing ever gets dry so curing is going on. Anything that gets dry stays green and no longer cures. Like sweating tobacco in bales to cure it.
Some OG#18 before and after.
Not dry enough to smoke but almost there at 6 weeks. Still have about an oz of this left too. Gets better with age.