green mold

swatgs

I need to pick some brains here, at times I place orange peels in my humidor. Couple of weeks ago my humidity was below 70 so I placed my element in distilled water and placed back in my box. My box when I do this shoots up to close to 100 percent, I then crack open my box a bit and even remove the element to get the humidity down. Today I was placing some new cigar in and I had green mold on an orange peel on the 2nd level of my humditor.. I removed the peels and removed all the cigars, some close to the mold where wrapped so they were okay a couple I threw out. I washed out the bottom of the box and also I placed it in the sun to dry out.  I guess I know what caused it the high humidity in the box plus the peels. It seems that when my humidity gets under 70 and a dip my element in distilled water and place back into box, my humidity shoots way up and at times takes a while to come down. I used to make it sit in distilled for 3 minutes, but last time for a minute and I still had the problem. I have about 40 cigars in my box.. going forward the peels are a done deal, but the high rise of the humidity and the time it takes to level out drives me nuts.

Is there a better way to do things before I blow all my cigars?

Plus I live in florida, and keep my box which has 2 levels and a glass top in a desk cabinet. Any idea's should I take it out of closet, leave on desk?

Any advise would help, maybe better system to buy for humidity?

Thanks I need a smoke...

Jerry..

 

dutyje

What is this "element" you speak of? Is it just the humidifier that came with your humidor? If so, that is most certainly why you are seeing huge humidity fluctuations. You need to prime that humidifier with some PG solution first. Also, orange peels? wtf?

havanaal

Don't get the orange peel thing, but just out of curiosity, if the humidity spikes to 80 for a bit, what's the harm? Shoot, in the summer here the RH is frequently over 80 just leaving my cigars on the shelf of my office!

swatgs

yes it the element that came with the box, i will try the pg solution. The orange peels came from a friend that made the box smell nice and absorbed the humidity a bit. Live and and learn right..

thanks

Jerry.

bass8844

swatgs

ya. bad idea..   i will try the beads tnks..

JKTex

dep691

Orange peels,,,,,,,,,lmao,,,,,,,,,your joking right

bwcarter54

Hey bass-when you talk about the beads, are you talking the jar with the little jel beads in it that you put the 50-50 pg solution in?

bass8844

I think what you're talking about is the gel jars. Those are different. Some people use those, but what I was refering to were humidity beads. I'm sure you could search this forum, or do a web search. They work well, and I, as many other fellas here would strongly recommend them.

bwcarter54

Thanks Bass-I'll do that right now.

jihiggs

orange peels make the sink disposal smell good, not your humidor! lets see, humidor = nice humid, dark space with bad air circulation. good place to grow mold = humid, dark space with bad air circulation. rofl