newb Need help....Humidor always at 75%

Hi guys,

I'm getting a hard time with my humidor and it has been 1 week now since I seasoned it. Here is what I did below.

I moisten the walls of the humidor Friday and left my rag inside on a plastic zip lock and also left a bowl of distilled water. I looked at the hygrometer 24hrs later and it was saying 68%. I re-moisten the walls again and left the bowl of water and rag again for another 24hrs. The reading now was 75% on Saturday night....I took the bowl of water away and the rag and left it for 1 hour. The reading was now 69%. I installed the humidifier and the reading the next morning is 76%. The instruction said that if it is still 75% and above, to leave the humidor open for a few hours. This is what I did. Also, I bought some propylene glycol solution and when I finished putting my humidifier in the water for 1 hour, added some solution to it. I left it as is for 2 days since I looked around on the net and a lot of places were saying the solution could take up to 1 week to stabilize your humidor. I looked tonight after 2 days and it is still saying 72\75…What should I do now? I was told to put them in and the cigars should drop my % down, which it didn't.

On other forums, they told me to make the salt test. I just finished it tonight and the reading was dead on, 72f\75%.

I was told that maybe I should get HF beads and this is what
i'll probably do. Any suggestions on how to lower this down in between 65% and 73%? I was also told maybe I should open my box for a few hours, in which I did before and same results but maybe leave it open more hours.
If that doesn't work, take the humidifier out and let it dry since one guy said I didn't put enough 50\50 solution since I put my humidifier in distilled water for 1 hour and just added some 50\50 solution. He said to put the whole humidifier in that 50\50 solution.

Can someone experienced with humidors can tell me what I should do from step one to the end?

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S Do you need that humidifier if I use those HF beads?

thanks

Stephane

Hello from Bitterville.

Will

badwhale,

will what?? We can't see anything you wrote?

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Originally Posted by Bullcrap05

badwhale,

will what?? We can't see anything you wrote?

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How long have you had the cigars in there and how full is the humidor? Though it will take time for them to absorb the humidity. Does your humidor have a tray or wooden dividers? You can let these sit out to dry and then put them back in to absorb the extra humidity.

Also what kind of hydrometer are you using?

It can drive you crazy, I know. The same happened to me when I setup my humidor and first cooler. Just be patient.

Where do you live? Living in New Orleans, I fuss and fight with high humidity very often. I may be able to advise you if you live in a high humidity environment, but if you live a dryer area, my advice might be useless.

Mine took a while to mellow out too. Through a couple non high dollar sticks in there and see how it does after a few days. Since it is high you can open it often to help drop the humidity down. Really i think it just takes some time, dont sweat it to much just let it do its thing.