If your sticks are on the wet side when you put them in your tupperdore, and your bovedas are fresh, or getting a little saturated, there's no room left in them to take in more humidity. The cigars will remain over humidified. This is my experience anyway. I took 2 of the 4 boveda packs out, let them dry out for a few days, then put them back it. The hygrometer indicated the RH returned to where it had been.
Inaccurate Boveda
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herfdog
I am no rocket surgeon
I always use my hygrometer. When it's low, I know my bovedas are dry. They never failed and keep a stable RH. If your cigars are spongy, may I ask what RH bovedas you're using?
85% bovedas aren't best for cigars...
85% bovedas aren't best for cigars...
I trust my bovedas more than any hygrometer I've owned. I barely look at the hygrometers any more.
I could see it being an issue of a small tupador with the boveda not working fast enough the soak up the extra rh so the cigars are soaking it up too. Especially if you are in a humid environment. Other that that, I don't know.
I could see it being an issue of a small tupador with the boveda not working fast enough the soak up the extra rh so the cigars are soaking it up too. Especially if you are in a humid environment. Other that that, I don't know.
^^^ This!
There are even some guys out there who just throw a few Boveda into a tupperdor and call it a day...they don't even use the hygro. My son does this with his setup; if the packs starting getting hard, it's time to replace.
StogieNinja
Derek | BoM June 2014
I'm not a scientist, but if your temp is as low as you say ( low 60*'s), the air inside the container can't hold as much humidity, so the cigars end up absorbing more moisture than they would at 70*. So, I would drop to something like 60%rh Boveda and give it a while, assuming your temps stay stable in the low 60's.
I think I have that right... but I am often wrong...
If the temp is fluctuating, there's your problem.
I think I have that right... but I am often wrong...
If the temp is fluctuating, there's your problem.
I have the opposite happen. In my basement as the temp drops going from summer to fall even before the heat starts running, as the temp drop so does the the rh according to my hygro. If I bring it up stairs where it's warmer, the rh goes back up. I keep my tupperdore in the basement year round now that I have heat in the basement but it's still only 64 degrees down there. That coupled with low rh in the house I have to go from 2 65 packs at 69 degrees during the summer that reads dead on to using 1 69 pack and reads 66 right now. With the 2 65's it had dropped to 62-63rh.
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herfdog
I am no rocket surgeon
Same here. Comes winter I need to recharge all my bovedas. In the summer, I sometimes have to add dry kl.
Rupe
Suburban robot that monitors reality -BOM Feb.'13
I actually came across one recently with the opposite problem. I have a 65 pack that I threw in my travel humidor and not very long after that that cigars that I was keeping in there seemed to be too dry. At first I chalked it up to the wintertime but I threw a hygrometer in their just to check. Lo and behold the hygrometer was only reading 60- 61 so I knew that something was wrong. I took everything out of the travel humidor, put my phone in there (in flashlight mode), closed it up and took it into a dark room to check for leaks. No light coming out so the seal is apparently sound.
The next step was to make sure the hygrometer was calibrated. I put a 69 Boveda in there with just the hygrometer and the next day my hygrometer read 69 on the button. Then I put the suspect Boveda pack back in there and sure enough, the next day it only read 60. Just to make sure, I left it in there for another 24 hours and it still read 60 so my only conclusion is that I have a mis-marked Boveda. I am now in the process of checking the rest of my packs just to make sure.
The next step was to make sure the hygrometer was calibrated. I put a 69 Boveda in there with just the hygrometer and the next day my hygrometer read 69 on the button. Then I put the suspect Boveda pack back in there and sure enough, the next day it only read 60. Just to make sure, I left it in there for another 24 hours and it still read 60 so my only conclusion is that I have a mis-marked Boveda. I am now in the process of checking the rest of my packs just to make sure.
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