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    Humidors are glorious, but make sure you keep it up in prime shape. I've heard many tricks, but one that is for certain in keeping your sticks in top form is to monitor pH level. I admit, I am a pH guy at heart, I know the ins and outs of it, but making sure your humidor isn't too acidic or too basic can really keep your stogies fresh. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing out on until you do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinatra View Post
    Humidors are glorious, but make sure you keep it up in prime shape. I've heard many tricks, but one that is for certain in keeping your sticks in top form is to monitor pH level. I admit, I am a pH guy at heart, I know the ins and outs of it, but making sure your humidor isn't too acidic or too basic can really keep your stogies fresh. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing out on until you do it.
    hmmmm, you have any interests in the sites linked in your sig? I've never measured PH in any of my humidors or coolers and my sticks seem to stay mighty smokeable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinatra View Post
    Humidors are glorious, but make sure you keep it up in prime shape. I've heard many tricks, but one that is for certain in keeping your sticks in top form is to monitor pH level. I admit, I am a pH guy at heart, I know the ins and outs of it, but making sure your humidor isn't too acidic or too basic can really keep your stogies fresh. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing out on until you do it.
    What the hell are you talking about? NO SIR! I DO NOT WANT BUY ANY LITMUS PAPER!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinatra View Post
    Humidors are glorious, but make sure you keep it up in prime shape. I've heard many tricks, but one that is for certain in keeping your sticks in top form is to monitor pH level. I admit, I am a pH guy at heart, I know the ins and outs of it, but making sure your humidor isn't too acidic or too basic can really keep your stogies fresh. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing out on until you do it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinatra View Post
    Humidors are glorious, but make sure you keep it up in prime shape. I've heard many tricks, but one that is for certain in keeping your sticks in top form is to monitor pH level. I admit, I am a pH guy at heart, I know the ins and outs of it, but making sure your humidor isn't too acidic or too basic can really keep your stogies fresh. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing out on until you do it.
    You know, being a still newish cigar smoker and on a constant quest for knowledge and dispelling of bullshit I took a look at what I could find about pH and cigars.

    What I've found is that it's the soil or the smoke that are measured in pH, not the air in the humidor nor the cigars themselves, so if you came here expecting to sell something I think you're best off just heading right back out the door that you came in and head off to puff.com with your wares, we don't want them here.
    Just a stay at home dad (retired until I choose otherwise, thanks Canadian Army medical pension) hanging out and enjoying the good life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinatra View Post
    Humidors are glorious, but make sure you keep it up in prime shape. I've heard many tricks, but one that is for certain in keeping your sticks in top form is to monitor pH level. I admit, I am a pH guy at heart, I know the ins and outs of it, but making sure your humidor isn't too acidic or too basic can really keep your stogies fresh. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing out on until you do it.

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    I check the PH once a week in our fish tank. Not in my humidor.
    3/4 of the Earth's surface is water and 1/4 is land. Clearly god wants me to fish, not mow the lawn.

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    Same here. Been smoking for quite awhile now and I would consider myself fairly knowledgable when it comes to smokes. At no time has it ever mattered whatsoever what the humidor PH level is. Way to try to sell your crap here Jackass.
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    Absolutely keep your Ph neutral! Extremely, gigantically, superlatively important stuff! While you're at it you may want to go to my site at "geigercounter.bs.com" and pickup one of those. Keeping the background radiation in check is crucial to slowing stogie degradation. You really run the risk of lowering your tobaccy half life if you don't keep this kind of stuff in check!

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