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