njstone
BoM January 2010
So I normally keep all my smokes at 65% rH with Heartfelt beads, and have had no problems along those lines. I was recently gifted a nice looking 100-count humidor that was previously seasoned and used, but I can't for the life of me get that sucker over 61% rH using some 65% beads (twice what should be needed) and even a few water pillows (68%).
I'm guessing the seal isn't great or something, and I'm not too worried about it. I decided to make this humi my "gonna smoke it soon" box, figuring a little bit lower rH would be fine or even better for that. That was 2 weeks ago.
The problem is, I've now had 2 sticks blow up on my in the last week (a Fuente King B and a CAO MX2). So I'm worried that this rH change might be messing with those sticks--the wrapper is drying out but not the filler (yet), and so things are heating up and the wrapper is blowing ... something like that.
So what I'm wondering is this: do you guys thing that 4% rH difference could be the problem here, or did i just have an unlucky week? I like the idea of a slightly dryer humi for the "soon to be smoked" sticks, but I could always scratch that and just put sticks in there that just need to be a little dryer (lanceros, sticks that tend to be too wet, etc.).
Thoughts?
I'm guessing the seal isn't great or something, and I'm not too worried about it. I decided to make this humi my "gonna smoke it soon" box, figuring a little bit lower rH would be fine or even better for that. That was 2 weeks ago.
The problem is, I've now had 2 sticks blow up on my in the last week (a Fuente King B and a CAO MX2). So I'm worried that this rH change might be messing with those sticks--the wrapper is drying out but not the filler (yet), and so things are heating up and the wrapper is blowing ... something like that.
So what I'm wondering is this: do you guys thing that 4% rH difference could be the problem here, or did i just have an unlucky week? I like the idea of a slightly dryer humi for the "soon to be smoked" sticks, but I could always scratch that and just put sticks in there that just need to be a little dryer (lanceros, sticks that tend to be too wet, etc.).
Thoughts?
