Problems! Help me diagnose Please

[denver24]

I've calibrated both hygrometers (digital and analog). I think I will try dry boxing for 1 day or so.

DeeDubya, I'm using 70 beads so I will try only wetting half of them.

Thanks for the input!

[Shelby07]

I've calibrated both hygrometers (digital and analog). I think I will try dry boxing for 1 day or so.

DeeDubya, I'm using 70 beads so I will try only wetting half of them.

Thanks for the input!

As DeeDubya said, you are only supposed to wet half of them anyway.

Drop your RH to 63-65%. Denver us too dry to take a cigar out of a humi kept at 70% RH and smoke it.

[denver24]

Thanks for the heads up Shelby! It's always good to get a little local knowledge. I think the cigars are getting "shocked when they go from 70 RH to pretty much 0 RH and then are cracking.

[bigwhiteash]

It may sound strange, but try running a cigar under a faucet for about a second, foot down, then blot off the excess water with a paper towel..

It sounds like your wrappers are drying out almost immediately in the low ambient Rh.

[DeeDubya]

It may sound strange, but try running a cigar under a faucet for about a second, foot down, then blot off the excess water with a paper towel..

It sounds like your wrappers are drying out almost immediately in the low ambient Rh.

Yep, folks used to lick a cigar to wet the wrapper before lighting.

[DeeDubya]

Before BWA jumps on this one... JMO it's OK for girls to lick their cigars to wet them. Dudes should run tap water over theirs for a second or two.

[drew_goring]

70% is definitely too high, especially in a dry environment. In the winter when the humidity is nil, I sometimes have wrapper cracking issues.

[mrtr33]

70% is definitely too high, especially in a dry environment. In the winter when the humidity is nil, I sometimes have wrapper cracking issues.

What about for a wet environment? Any other southerners who experience high levels of humidity find that they have to store their cigars a bit differently? It's not too bad now, but I know as the summer gets closer, we get some very humid days. Effectively, the humidor will be less humid than it is outside. How will my cigars smoke then?