Humidor question to all BOTLs living in a dry climate

boydmcgowan

j0z3r

jliu

I second Joe. Also, during the winter months, I would use a little dish or cup and just put distilled water in it and set it in my humidor. That seemed to have kicked up the humidity level as well. If all else fails, lets just smoke all of them ok?

jliu

wait. I don't want to smoke the dried up ones. I wish you can delete posts on this forum. Oh well, at least I just padded my post (just kidding. I'm not one of those guys. nope).

boydmcgowan

jliu:

I second Joe. Also, during the winter months, I would use a little dish or cup and just put distilled water in it and set it in my humidor. That seemed to have kicked up the humidity level as well. If all else fails, lets just smoke all of them ok?

hahaha, I season the humi this way, but I'm WAY too clutzy for a dish of water in there once there are cigars in it. I'm a cello off kind of guy, so thats just a problem waiting to happen.

boydmcgowan

boydmcgowan

jliu

interesting. now i gotta move ALL my sticks into tupperwares and season the humis. freaking great.

boydmcgowan

hahaha, well I'm a big advocate in the "if it aint broke don't fix it" mentality, so . . . . . if your good then why bother.

j0z3r

danielzreyes

I don't see anything wrong with keeping it at 65%. I keep mine at 65-68%.

jgibv

boydmcgowan

The Sniper

Russ55

It's pretty dry here, and I don't re-season, but I use Boveda packs in my wooden humidors, and beads in my coolers. Beads are great, but I never get the results I want in actual humidors. Experiment a bit I guess.

boydmcgowan

jgibv

boydmcgowan

danielzreyes:

I don't see anything wrong with keeping it at 65%. I keep mine at 65-68%.

Totally agree here, that there's nothing wrong with 65%, but I have 70% beads and sit consistently at ~62/63%. That sounds like user error on my part. So I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. And I know I'm not damaging anything becuase anywhere from probably high 50s to low 70s is fine, but I just prefer the chewy texture of the smoke when I ckeep it close to 70%. Personal preference is all.

boydmcgowan

Russ55:

It's pretty dry here, and I don't re-season, but I use Boveda packs in my wooden humidors, and beads in my coolers. Beads are great, but I never get the results I want in actual humidors. Experiment a bit I guess.

Thats some food for thought, thanks Russ.

catfishbluezz

I'm closing in on year two in the central valley which is very dry. Only time I has to reseason, was due to improper seasoning. I do it for a solid week with little or no wipedown past the first day and mine are solid with beads. I have a harder time adding boxes to my cooler and typically have to reseason with each new box.

jgibv

Roberto99

jgibv

boydmcgowan

jgibv

boydmcgowan

boydmcgowan

jgibv