Newbie with humidor question

[mikea]

Hi, First post here and I have a question about my new humidor, I have searched the past threads and it seemed to confuse me more, anyhow I have had a cup of water in my humidor for three days and after calibrating the hydrometer I placed in the humidor today and it is reading 86% with the cup of water still in it. Is it time to remove the cup? is it time to place some sticks in it? Is it time to place some solution on the puck ? I need help this is stressing me out. Oh it is a small 10- 15 stick humi. Thanks for all your help. Mike

[bazookajoe]

Welcome to Club Stogie. You should head over to the New Gorilla forum and introduce yourself.

Since you've already calibrated your hygro, I'd see what the humi measures without the cup of water in there. Have you charged the humidifier?

[Blaylock]

If you have calibrated the hygrometer and sure it is accurate, I would take out the water and put in the cigars. Keep an eye on the readings and when the Rh gets to your desired level, put the puck with the solution back into the humidor.

It will take awhile for everything to "level out" so don't "stress"...that's very common when your starting out.


and...Welcome to Club Stogie!








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[drawfour]

Originally Posted by Blake Lockhart

If you have calibrated the hygrometer and sure it is accurate, I would take out the water and put in the cigars. Keep an eye on the readings and when the Rh gets to your desired level, put the puck with the solution back into the humidor.

It will take awhile for everything to "level out" so don't "stress"...that's very common when your starting out.


and...Welcome to Club Stogie!

Agree. It will fluctuate a bit at the beginning, because the sticks and cedar are all absorbing humidity as fast as they can. So it will suck some out of the air, causing it to plummet, then the solution will put some back in, causing it to raise, etc... Don't worry about that.

Also, the smaller the humi, the more it will fluctuate just from opening it for a few seconds.

And as other people will tell you -- get some beads!!!

Here is a thread about converting your solution based puck to one with beads (well worth the read, and has pictures too!):
http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthr...humidity+beads

[Tidefan73]

Originally Posted by drawfour

Agree. It will fluctuate a bit at the beginning, because the sticks and cedar are all absorbing humidity as fast as they can. So it will suck some out of the air, causing it to plummet, then the solution will put some back in, causing it to raise, etc... Don't worry about that.

Also, the smaller the humi, the more it will fluctuate just from opening it for a few seconds.

And as other people will tell you -- get some beads!!!

Here is a thread about converting your solution based puck to one with beads (well worth the read, and has pictures too!):
http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthr...humidity+beads

Right on the money...not that you needed me to tell you that! You're going to have some instability in the beginning, but it will level out.
I second the statement about the beads!! Well worth the money!!

[mikea]

Thanks Guys, for all the advice. The sticks are in so I will keep you updated. Again thanks for the help.

[SmokeyJoe]

Lot's of good advice... welcome to Club Stogie!

[Mr Mojo Risin]

I have three humi's that i have seasoned, I have allways waited till the RH gets down to 67-73% Rh before putting any sticks in. The first humi i added cigars two fast and it seem to plug some of my sticks. It takes a little longer, but worth the wait. And yes the Beads are much easey to use.