Cabinet humidor seasoning and beads

[Altra]

Ok most of you saw my thread about getting the new cabinet and setting it up last Thursday. Now I know humidors once seasoned hold the humidity better when they are filled with cigars. Here is my question.

So this is the black Tower with out drawers from Cheaphumidors.com. I have a Hydra Lg in there and set it to 70 for the first few days to help speed up the process. I have this one shelf up from the bottom of the cabinet.

3 fans running, 1 on the top shelf, 1 2 shelves down and 1 on the very bottom blowing up.

4 bowls with distilled water/papertowel throughout the humidor on multiple shelves.


Ok on to my question, been about 2 days worth of time and I know this thing will take a while so i'm ok with that. Now the top is lower humidity then the bottom, doesn't humidity rise? The door is tight and I also put weather stripping around just to be extra anal The RH is rising slowly so it's not a problem but I thought I would be having to get the lower part of the cabinet up not the top.

When I add cigars I will be adding about 6 or 8 boxes and some singles. Do you guys think that amount plus adding beads and keeping the Hydra on will keep this thing from dropping RH? I plan on putting 4lbs of beads in there. I plan of course to put more boxes in as I can of course but curious how it will be with what I currently have.

I'm not new to cigars but I am totally new to a humidor this size. So if you can make out my rambling what input do you guys have?


Appreciate it,

Shawn