Is my humi ready?

[Scraggs]

So I've been seasoning my humi for a little over six days now with a shot glass of distilled water and an 84% Boveda seasoning pack. Yesterday, the humidity read 76% according to my digital hygrometer so I took out both the seasoning pack and the water and it has held steady at 73% with nothing in it for the last 24 hours.

Can I put my cigars in now, or do I need to wait longer? Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier thread on this.

[CrashTECH]

Originally Posted by Scraggs

So I've been seasoning my humi for a little over six days now with a shot glass of distilled water and an 84% Boveda seasoning pack. Yesterday, the humidity read 76% according to my digital hygrometer so I took out both the seasoning pack and the water and it has held steady at 73% with nothing in it for the last 24 hours.

Can I put my cigars in now, or do I need to wait longer? Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier thread on this.

See how it is over the next 24 hours. 73% is probably a touch high though. If it stays solid then you are probably ready to go. Do you have your choosen humidification device in there? If things don't seem to hold throw the pack back in for another couple of days and leave it closed and try/check again.

Did you read the directions on the seasoning pack? It says it takes 14 days (while I am betting 10 or so is probably about right, the extra couple days doesn't hurt). Did you leave it closed the whole time? Putting the shot glass in was probably counter productive / not helpful to the process. My understanding is that the Boveda packs are two-way, so they give off as well as take in moisture.

I have used those to season 4 humidors in the past few months (gifts) and I wish I had done mine that way (I did do one of my two with the packs though). I know it is hard, believe me... but the wait was worth it.

Check out these links:
Bóveda: One-Step Seasoning Kit

BovedaDirect

[Redheadz]

How many cigars does your humi hold? If it were mine, I'd throw a couple of 69 Boveda packs in there and fill it up!
Can you tell I'm impatient when it comes to humi's? ..

[P_Roberts]

I had the same problem with my humidor. The humidity would stay above 70 with no humidifier for almost 2 weeks, when it dropped to about 65 I would add the humidifier for 2 days and humidity would rocket back up to like 75-78. Getting Heartfelt Beads solved all this for me, in the last 3 moths my hydrometer has read 69-72.

[Herf N Turf]

Too moist.

Drop it to 70%, or better yet, 65%, then install tobacco products.

[Scraggs]

Thanks everyone for your advice. I have the cigars in with 3 drymistat tubes and the humidity on the caliber III now reads 66%. Are the 3 drymistats providing sufficient humidity or do I need a separate humidifier and/or heartfelt beads?

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Scraggs

Thanks everyone for your advice. I have the cigars in with 3 drymistat tubes and the humidity on the caliber III now reads 66%. Are the 3 drymistats providing sufficient humidity or do I need a separate humidifier and/or heartfelt beads?

Personally, I love the beads. They maintain a rock steady humidity for me.

[CrashTECH]

I have beads in mine (in custom containers, made from plastic toothpick holders!). They aren't heartfelt beads BUT they seem to be rock steady and able to recover really fast after opening the humi. Best part was I didn't have to pay for them

[e-man]

Originally Posted by Scraggs

Thanks everyone for your advice. I have the cigars in with 3 drymistat tubes and the humidity on the caliber III now reads 66%. Are the 3 drymistats providing sufficient humidity or do I need a separate humidifier and/or heartfelt beads?

Your humidity will be in flux for a while. Who knows how humid your cigars were when you added them, how full your humidor is, or how often you open it. Give it a couple of weeks to stabilize before making any changes, and try not to open it too much while it is equalizing.

The amount of humidification required depends on the size of the humidor. Since you never gave the size, it's impossible to tell if you have enough drymistats. Extra humidifiers never hurt. It will just run longer before you need to add water again. Extra humidification is cheap insurance in case you neglect you humidor for a while.

I assume your drymistats are rated at 70%. If you decide to supplement them, then use 70% beads as well. If you use 65% beads with them, they won't give off any more moisture than you're getting today. If you want to run your humidor at 65% then buy enough 65% beads and stop using the drymistats.

In other words, 70% humidifier + 65% humidifier does NOT equal 67.5%. It will run at 70% until the 70% humidifier runs out of water, then the 65% humidifier kicks in.