Pick a small popcorn bud

You can do that but you wont have fun smoking it. I suggest to wait a little bit more and have a great frist time smoking your own weed experience after drying and curing alittle bit.😊 (Drying faster like mircrowave or oven will destroy every taste and smell btw😄)

I think you have a bit more time then 1/2 a week. Maybe 2 more. Smokeing died uncured weed is nasty, give it a slow dry and good cure for it to become nice and smooth.

Just wait man. You need to dry/cure it for at least 2 weeks before its going to be smokeable anyway. its going to ruin the experience because its not going to smoke well at all if you try to dry it faster. maybe if you had a bigger plant but you want as much of that to be nice cured buds as you can. if you have a rosin press or something you could get away with a half dry then pressing it into rosin if you really want to get baked!