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Too humid even without humification unit
oldsoulrevival
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Been a while since Ive posted because life has been INCREDIBLY busy (good, though), and I went to check on my cigars today, and one of my prized sticks looks like it might have some mold on it.
My humidity is at 73, which is WAY too hhigh but I dont even have a humidification unit in there.
What to do?!
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First choice would be beads though, they are "Set it and Forget it" kind of things
Here, Winter is dry enough; but Summer is frequently thick.
I've so far managed to avoid urinating on it everytime I open the cooler, so they maintain RH% from 68%-72% for the last 6 months. Same thing as the beads, except that the beads are generally larger fragments of silica gel.
I'm bothered that someone would recommend uncooked rice, because how are you going to regulate it?
And as was mentioned, rice is organic and very susceptible to mold.
VERY susceptible. I don't know about you, but I won't risk my cigars to that.
As was stated, 65% beads is the best way to go. You set it and forget it.
Now don't be fooled. I don't mean the kind of green where you pump water six hundred miles and sprinkle a fifth acre patch of fescue in order to delude yourselves you do not live in a bleak blasted wasteland. No, I mean verdant. Naturally green. All the time. Summer too.
I know. I didn't believe it either when I first moved here. But I can assure you, it's true.
Here's how the phenomenon occurs: Every day in Summer it hot and stuffy. The stuff in that stuffy is water. The water comes from rivers No again, not a V shaped cement culvert with graffitti on the sides and a couple discarded tires in the bottom, but rivers big enough for ships to sail up. Dull-Aware a quarter of a sandbar between two such rivers, the Delaware and the Chesapeake. Merryland and Virginia own the rest of the sand bar. The water table is approximately one cowboy boot heel below grade. Heat sucks up all this water, stuffs the air, energy builds up, and sure as shooting thunder and lightning break out, and then it ours. No, not just a couple driplets which leave a mark on your sunglasses, but real frog stranglers and bucket chuckers. It's that water which, flowing back to the rivers, makes the place green. Then the sun sucks it up, and we start all over again.
All of which is by way of saying that, no, tjhat won't work, because this morning it is 76 with 95% humidibbititty and raining. Which is SOP, here in verdant Dull-Aware.
Tell you what: I'll ship my humidor to you, you take out one stick for me, and ship tjhe box back. I don't want to open the box here. Go ahead and smopke the stick, cause it would be drenched by the time you shipped it back. Tell me what it smoked like, and I will get wistful.
Best I can do.