Hey brown leaf frequenters,
I've come to seek the advice of the knowledgeable minds of B&B. I received a Capri 50 count glass top humidor for christmas. I had had other humidors that weren't keeping humidity, so I figured for the longest time that they were defective (they were hand-me-downs from my grandfather which had been in cool temp storage for years). Upon further research, I figured out that you had to keep a humidor relatively well stocked in order for it to work; my measly handful of stogies wasn't going to cut it
thankfully, a little later someone gifted me a box of very fine, yet inexpensive Sancho Panzas (golf buddy knew it was one of my favorite every day type smoke), so I figured I could afford the experiment with them. I bought a drymistat tube shaped gel humidifier, and seasoned the humidor with a wet sponge placed on a plastic bag on the floor of a humidor for 3 days, periodically re-wetting the sponge. I added the 20 Sancho Panzas from the box, along with about 10 other cigars I previously acquired. Things went well for the first two weeks or so, with the humidity holding at 71% but after that, it dropped to 65% and has held steady for the last two months. I haven't checked if the hygrometer attached to the front of the humidor - which is what I'm basing my reading off of - is accurate or not, and my xikar digital hygrometer is out of batteries, but I can definitely tell the cigars are drier than they were in the past, due to a bitter, dry smoke and the fact that they've become very firm.
Granted, I have been smoking them down so there are less then I started with, but I don't smoke so often that the numbers would have significantly changed from those first two weeks onward. I believe I still have about 20 in there, though some are still in a plastic wrapper. Is there any advice you guys may have?
Thanks all,
Max
I've come to seek the advice of the knowledgeable minds of B&B. I received a Capri 50 count glass top humidor for christmas. I had had other humidors that weren't keeping humidity, so I figured for the longest time that they were defective (they were hand-me-downs from my grandfather which had been in cool temp storage for years). Upon further research, I figured out that you had to keep a humidor relatively well stocked in order for it to work; my measly handful of stogies wasn't going to cut it
thankfully, a little later someone gifted me a box of very fine, yet inexpensive Sancho Panzas (golf buddy knew it was one of my favorite every day type smoke), so I figured I could afford the experiment with them. I bought a drymistat tube shaped gel humidifier, and seasoned the humidor with a wet sponge placed on a plastic bag on the floor of a humidor for 3 days, periodically re-wetting the sponge. I added the 20 Sancho Panzas from the box, along with about 10 other cigars I previously acquired. Things went well for the first two weeks or so, with the humidity holding at 71% but after that, it dropped to 65% and has held steady for the last two months. I haven't checked if the hygrometer attached to the front of the humidor - which is what I'm basing my reading off of - is accurate or not, and my xikar digital hygrometer is out of batteries, but I can definitely tell the cigars are drier than they were in the past, due to a bitter, dry smoke and the fact that they've become very firm.Granted, I have been smoking them down so there are less then I started with, but I don't smoke so often that the numbers would have significantly changed from those first two weeks onward. I believe I still have about 20 in there, though some are still in a plastic wrapper. Is there any advice you guys may have?
Thanks all,
Max
