Ok I recently purchased a Whynter CHC-120S Stainless Steel 250-Cigar Cooler Humidor, 1.2 Cubic Feet.
I’ve smoked cigars my whole life (I’m 41) but this is my first humidor.
Here’s what I did, I got it, cleaned it all down with a wet rag, went over all the wood several times (per the directions to get it ready). I filled up the little cup it came with with water, plugged in it and set it to 66 degrees (that’s the highest it goes, odd since most my reading has said you want 70 degrees/70 humidity). It settled on 70 humidity perfect on its own. So she’s at a solid 66/70
I thought everything was good, so I went on an ordering spree. I’ve got a real nice selection of cigars. Then about two weeks later I started getting white spots on my cigars. I looked this up and see that it’s probably plume, and my cigars are aging perfectly, I’m ecstatic.... a few days later the white spots have grown, clearly its mold.
I tore everything down, washed the wood (lightly) with rubbing alcohol, cleaned the whole humidor, I had to throw several cigars away that were molded to bad. The rest I cleaned really good to get rid of all mold spores and stuff from them without ruining them.
Now for the questions.
A: what did I do wrong? With 1000’s of dollars of cigars I can not be having this issue
B: how do I stop it from happening again?
C: this humidor came with an LED light, it’s blue and it’s not very bright. I left that on the entire time because it kinda made it look cool. Should that be left off? What’s that light for? It’s not bright enough really to be able to see, it’s more of an accent light
If you have any clarifying questions to help me get to the bottom of this, ask away.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me!
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I’ve smoked cigars my whole life (I’m 41) but this is my first humidor.
Here’s what I did, I got it, cleaned it all down with a wet rag, went over all the wood several times (per the directions to get it ready). I filled up the little cup it came with with water, plugged in it and set it to 66 degrees (that’s the highest it goes, odd since most my reading has said you want 70 degrees/70 humidity). It settled on 70 humidity perfect on its own. So she’s at a solid 66/70
I thought everything was good, so I went on an ordering spree. I’ve got a real nice selection of cigars. Then about two weeks later I started getting white spots on my cigars. I looked this up and see that it’s probably plume, and my cigars are aging perfectly, I’m ecstatic.... a few days later the white spots have grown, clearly its mold.
I tore everything down, washed the wood (lightly) with rubbing alcohol, cleaned the whole humidor, I had to throw several cigars away that were molded to bad. The rest I cleaned really good to get rid of all mold spores and stuff from them without ruining them.
Now for the questions.
A: what did I do wrong? With 1000’s of dollars of cigars I can not be having this issue
B: how do I stop it from happening again?
C: this humidor came with an LED light, it’s blue and it’s not very bright. I left that on the entire time because it kinda made it look cool. Should that be left off? What’s that light for? It’s not bright enough really to be able to see, it’s more of an accent light
If you have any clarifying questions to help me get to the bottom of this, ask away.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me!
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