try placing a bowl of distlled water in there with the beads. They will soak up the water and your RH should start to go up. When your beads maintain RH at 63 (when the beads are rated for 65%) that shows the beads need more moisture.
Since your Rh question has been answered I will take a stab at the temp one. Since it has gotten hot up here I have had to move my humidor around a bit to keep the temp down. I found that the bottom of a closet that does not have any walls that are exterior walls are the coolest. Mine was keeping around 75-73 now that it is in the closet I am staying at 65-68.
my humi although i have only had it for 2-3 months stays at about 75-78 degrees in the summer so far. i did have a scare when i looked at it one day and it read 80 because i heard that is the breaking point for beetles so i moved it to the basement where it dropped to 66 degrees by the next day. when we turned the a/c back on i was able to put it back upstairs now staying at about 75 degrees. it does concern me a little bit because i did read this thing where it said 72 degrees was bad until i realized it was a sales pitch to get me to buy something. so take what you will from that. good luck hope this helps
My humi goes up to 75--77 regularly down here in Florida. No way to keep it consistently lower in the summer. I have never experienced a problem with it. Call me crazy but I have intentionally left some cigars in my truck on hot humid days to sample the difference in tastes. Some sticks actually taste better when exposed to higher temps for a few hours. Just saying!
My humi goes up to 75--77 regularly down here in Florida. No way to keep it consistently lower in the summer. I have never experienced a problem with it. Call me crazy but I have intentionally left some cigars in my truck on hot humid days to sample the difference in tastes. Some sticks actually taste better when exposed to higher temps for a few hours. Just saying!
Yeah I remember reading an article , I think it was in CA , but anyway the writter was talking about how different wrappers prefer a little higher RH then others. I will try to see if I can find it again. It was interesting.
My humi goes up to 75--77 regularly down here in Florida. No way to keep it consistently lower in the summer. I have never experienced a problem with it. Call me crazy but I have intentionally left some cigars in my truck on hot humid days to sample the difference in tastes. Some sticks actually taste better when exposed to higher temps for a few hours. Just saying!
Yeah I remember reading an article , I think it was in CA , but anyway the writter was talking about how different wrappers prefer a little higher RH then others. I will try to see if I can find it again. It was interesting.
It is not just RH, I am talking temps that reach 100+ on a sunny day down here. Some sticks really respond and just ooze flavor if they get heated up ahead of time.
Be careful. It can certainly get humid here, but leaving a cigar out in the humidity is an easy way to get a cracked or split wrapper if you aren't careful.
Be careful. It can certainly get humid here, but leaving a cigar out in the humidity is an easy way to get a cracked or split wrapper if you aren't careful.
The OPPOSITE of dry boxing...Truck sweating. That Gypsy... such a rebel
Be careful. It can certainly get humid here, but leaving a cigar out in the humidity is an easy way to get a cracked or split wrapper if you aren't careful.
The OPPOSITE of dry boxing...Truck sweating. That Gypsy... such a rebel
OK, I am just talking about leaving them from 6 am till lunch time out of the sun. The medium brown wrappers of some really respond to this, but not all of them. The very dark maduro and oscuro wrappers do not respond as well in my experience. Do not leave them in the sun, they will be toasted for sure. LOL
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