Humidor seasoning problems...?

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stephen_hannibal

xmacro

brainfrz:

I read the reviews and many people suggested rubbing the inside down with a soaked sponge (distilled water of coarse), charge humidor and fill a shot glass with the water as well.

Many people are impatient idiots who can't wait an extra 2-3 days - don't always believe the popular hype. Take the cigars out, put them in a ziplock bag with a water pillow, and put a large, shallow dish of distilled water in your humi and put your humidifying device in there too (fully charged) - leave it there for 2 days and 2 nights; then put the cigars back in with a newly charged humidifier.

lilwing88

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Thank you all for your responses. I'll let it sit again for a little bit longer with the open water and humidifier charged and give it a second go. Sounds like I might have jumped the gun or the cigars I put in there were bone dry!

lilwing88

Be careful putting "bone-dry" cigars into a fully charged humi.......... the fillers will take in the moisture first and expand causing the wrapper to split....... Dried out cigars need to be brought back up to normal rh very slowly. I'd google some sites for "restoring dried out cigars" before trying it yourself.

jlmarta

jlmarta

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Alright, so several days after reseasoning with a solid reading of 70% humidity, I pulled the shto glass of water out, placed cigars in and yet again watched humidity plummit to 60%.  It's been a couple days with the cigars sitting in there and it looks like the humiditiy might have raised maybe 1%.  Any ideas?  What is a relatevily cheap yet reliable digital hygrometer?  Is this normal for it to drop like that when placing cigars in there?  I've got a 50ct humidor and placing 7 cigars in there.  All of which I just purchased from this site and they were shipped with a humidity pillow.  Again, thank you all for your responses- I'm a total newbie when it comes to this.

txjayhawk

brainfrz:

Alright, so several days after reseasoning with a solid reading of 70% humidity, I pulled the shto glass of water out, placed cigars in and yet again watched humidity plummit to 60%.  It's been a couple days with the cigars sitting in there and it looks like the humiditiy might have raised maybe 1%.  Any ideas?  What is a relatevily cheap yet reliable digital hygrometer?  Is this normal for it to drop like that when placing cigars in there?  I've got a 50ct humidor and placing 7 cigars in there.  All of which I just purchased from this site and they were shipped with a humidity pillow.  Again, thank you all for your responses- I'm a total newbie when it comes to this.

are you running an analog right now? if so, heres how you fix it...place it in your hand...open the trash can...put hand over trash can...drop analog in trash can...take trash out. Go spend the money on a reliable digital hygrometer. Ive been runninng 3 in my humidor. One is on my Hydra Unit (bottom shelf), one wireless weather station (mounted middle shelf), and my xikar up on the top in lowest humidity area. It is worth the 15-25 bucks for the digital. Also you may want to check the seal. is the glass on the top actually sealed up? if not you may want to use a little aquarium sealant to fix it...I know I had that problem with my 1st humidor (it wasa cheapo) so I built my own. Also try the dollar bill test, and the sound test (it should make a nice wooshing soudn when you close it)

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txjayhawk:

brainfrz:

Alright, so several days after reseasoning with a solid reading of 70% humidity, I pulled the shto glass of water out, placed cigars in and yet again watched humidity plummit to 60%.  It's been a couple days with the cigars sitting in there and it looks like the humiditiy might have raised maybe 1%.  Any ideas?  What is a relatevily cheap yet reliable digital hygrometer?  Is this normal for it to drop like that when placing cigars in there?  I've got a 50ct humidor and placing 7 cigars in there.  All of which I just purchased from this site and they were shipped with a humidity pillow.  Again, thank you all for your responses- I'm a total newbie when it comes to this.

are you running an analog right now? if so, heres how you fix it...place it in your hand...open the trash can...put hand over trash can...drop analog in trash can...take trash out. Go spend the money on a reliable digital hygrometer. Ive been runninng 3 in my humidor. One is on my Hydra Unit (bottom shelf), one wireless weather station (mounted middle shelf), and my xikar up on the top in lowest humidity area. It is worth the 15-25 bucks for the digital.

I saw that coming.  Ha.  With my humidor though, there is a hole cut in it where you place the hygrometer so I will need to keep it there to plug that hole.  I've seen the Xikar on amazon for roughly $20, I might pull the trigger on that.  All that aside, do you think I'm probably fine, it's just my hygrometer with bad readings?

txjayhawk

brainfrz:

txjayhawk:

brainfrz:

Alright, so several days after reseasoning with a solid reading of 70% humidity, I pulled the shto glass of water out, placed cigars in and yet again watched humidity plummit to 60%.  It's been a couple days with the cigars sitting in there and it looks like the humiditiy might have raised maybe 1%.  Any ideas?  What is a relatevily cheap yet reliable digital hygrometer?  Is this normal for it to drop like that when placing cigars in there?  I've got a 50ct humidor and placing 7 cigars in there.  All of which I just purchased from this site and they were shipped with a humidity pillow.  Again, thank you all for your responses- I'm a total newbie when it comes to this.

are you running an analog right now? if so, heres how you fix it...place it in your hand...open the trash can...put hand over trash can...drop analog in trash can...take trash out. Go spend the money on a reliable digital hygrometer. Ive been runninng 3 in my humidor. One is on my Hydra Unit (bottom shelf), one wireless weather station (mounted middle shelf), and my xikar up on the top in lowest humidity area. It is worth the 15-25 bucks for the digital.

I saw that coming.  Ha.  With my humidor though, there is a hole cut in it where you place the hygrometer so I will need to keep it there to plug that hole.  I've seen the Xikar on amazon for roughly $20, I might pull the trigger on that.  All that aside, do you think I'm probably fine, it's just my hygrometer with bad readings?

only way to really know that is to smoke one that has been in there for a while. If the burn is all messed up or a quality cigar falls apart then you have a problem. I went through something very similar when I built my cabinet. First I was pissed cuz i thought I would have to redo the whole damn thing, but it just took a little longer to season, and now it holds at 67-62. Just be patient...and get the digital hygro! Did you ever do the salt test to see if your analog is even correct? cuz all this could be for nothing if you havent calibrated it.

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txjayhawk:

brainfrz:

txjayhawk:

brainfrz:

Alright, so several days after reseasoning with a solid reading of 70% humidity, I pulled the shto glass of water out, placed cigars in and yet again watched humidity plummit to 60%.  It's been a couple days with the cigars sitting in there and it looks like the humiditiy might have raised maybe 1%.  Any ideas?  What is a relatevily cheap yet reliable digital hygrometer?  Is this normal for it to drop like that when placing cigars in there?  I've got a 50ct humidor and placing 7 cigars in there.  All of which I just purchased from this site and they were shipped with a humidity pillow.  Again, thank you all for your responses- I'm a total newbie when it comes to this.

are you running an analog right now? if so, heres how you fix it...place it in your hand...open the trash can...put hand over trash can...drop analog in trash can...take trash out. Go spend the money on a reliable digital hygrometer. Ive been runninng 3 in my humidor. One is on my Hydra Unit (bottom shelf), one wireless weather station (mounted middle shelf), and my xikar up on the top in lowest humidity area. It is worth the 15-25 bucks for the digital.

I saw that coming.  Ha.  With my humidor though, there is a hole cut in it where you place the hygrometer so I will need to keep it there to plug that hole.  I've seen the Xikar on amazon for roughly $20, I might pull the trigger on that.  All that aside, do you think I'm probably fine, it's just my hygrometer with bad readings?

only way to really know that is to smoke one that has been in there for a while. If the burn is all messed up or a quality cigar falls apart then you have a problem. I went through something very similar when I built my cabinet. First I was pissed cuz i thought I would have to redo the whole damn thing, but it just took a little longer to season, and now it holds at 67-62. Just be patient...and get the digital hygro! Did you ever do the salt test to see if your analog is even correct? cuz all this could be for nothing if you havent calibrated it.

I did not calibrate it.  I'll chalk that up to newbie error.  I think this weekend I'll order the Xikar digital hygrometer and give that a whirl.

txjayhawk

brainfrz:

txjayhawk:

brainfrz:

txjayhawk:

brainfrz:

Alright, so several days after reseasoning with a solid reading of 70% humidity, I pulled the shto glass of water out, placed cigars in and yet again watched humidity plummit to 60%.  It's been a couple days with the cigars sitting in there and it looks like the humiditiy might have raised maybe 1%.  Any ideas?  What is a relatevily cheap yet reliable digital hygrometer?  Is this normal for it to drop like that when placing cigars in there?  I've got a 50ct humidor and placing 7 cigars in there.  All of which I just purchased from this site and they were shipped with a humidity pillow.  Again, thank you all for your responses- I'm a total newbie when it comes to this.

are you running an analog right now? if so, heres how you fix it...place it in your hand...open the trash can...put hand over trash can...drop analog in trash can...take trash out. Go spend the money on a reliable digital hygrometer. Ive been runninng 3 in my humidor. One is on my Hydra Unit (bottom shelf), one wireless weather station (mounted middle shelf), and my xikar up on the top in lowest humidity area. It is worth the 15-25 bucks for the digital.

I saw that coming.  Ha.  With my humidor though, there is a hole cut in it where you place the hygrometer so I will need to keep it there to plug that hole.  I've seen the Xikar on amazon for roughly $20, I might pull the trigger on that.  All that aside, do you think I'm probably fine, it's just my hygrometer with bad readings?

only way to really know that is to smoke one that has been in there for a while. If the burn is all messed up or a quality cigar falls apart then you have a problem. I went through something very similar when I built my cabinet. First I was pissed cuz i thought I would have to redo the whole damn thing, but it just took a little longer to season, and now it holds at 67-62. Just be patient...and get the digital hygro! Did you ever do the salt test to see if your analog is even correct? cuz all this could be for nothing if you havent calibrated it.

I did not calibrate it.  I'll chalk that up to newbie error.  I think this weekend I'll order the Xikar digital hygrometer and give that a whirl.

good plan...if you want to calibrate the analog here what you do...go get a a small dish...like a shot glass again...fill it w/ salt...put a few drops of distilled water on it (just enough to moisten it, but you dont want water pooling in it) and put it in to your empty humi for a few hours...your analong should read 75% at that point. If it doesnt adjust it by turning the the dial with a screwdriver to make it say 75%.

minibeezy

brainfrz

brainfrz

Just an update- got my Xikar digital hygrometer last week with the Boveda calibration bag. After three days it was reading a solid 72 so I set it to 75. Placed in my humidor and it's reading a solid 70. Looks like I'm good after all. Money well spent, I can sleep at night now.