Why are my cigars dry?

**primus67** · 02-15-2009, 06:13 PM

after getting and calibrating a digital hygrometer, i believe the humidity in my humidor to be 75%. it's a new madelaine humidor and it was seasoned. this was around a week after christmas. i ordered 60 cigars from jr cigars in early january. they've been in there since then. today, 2/15/09, my brother in law and i had the first cigars from the humidor. we cut the tips of and they were crumbly. the wrapper started coming off of mine. the draw was loose at first. they burned fine and the ash was very even. i squeezed a few other cigars in the humidor and i could hear a little crackling in them.

why would this be happening when the humidity is at 75%?

**bigwhiteash** · 02-15-2009, 06:30 PM

What kind of humidifier are you using? Is your humidor placed in an area with a lot of air movement? (heater vent, or fan). Were the cigars dry-ish when you received them? Usually cigars from are delivered in an over-humidified state, but it's possible they were dry when they arrived. That much time in 75% should have resolved that though.

Try moistening the cap in your mouth prior to cutting, that may help, but it sounds like something is leaching humidity from your box. How often do you open it to look at your goodies?

**primus67** · 02-16-2009, 07:49 AM

i'm using th madelaine executive 100 humidifier filled with madelaine's solution. i fill the thing once a week as it seems to need it.

i have the humidor in my den where it's usually 70-74 degrees. not near any heat or air.

i open it once a day for about 2 seconds just to check humidity. and even then i only open the lis about a third of the way.

when i got the cigars, they seemed fine. they came in pretty cold weather at the time nut they got here in like 3 days. as soon as i got them, i let the box acclimate to room temp, opened the sealed box, removed the cigars from the cellophabe wrappers and right into my humidor.

yesterday i added a shot glass filled about halfway with distilled water as well as an old small credo humidifier. humidity this morning is at 75%.

i'll check the cigars for softness in a few days again.

**mrtr33** · 02-16-2009, 09:42 AM

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....................

What kind of humidor are you using? How big is this humidor? What kind of cigars did you get from JR? I second the moistening of the cap before cutting.