Humidity - please help if possible.

[K Baz]

I'll give you the toughest words to hear in the early times of dealing with RH - it's going to be fine. Your cigars will be fine from 55 % - 70 % many people store them in these ranges. The rapid swings are what you want to avoid.

Now what is the deviation on your hygros so we know what your actual RH is?

Also considering all the changes your doing new vino, add sticks, removing sticks, etc it will take a while for everything to balance and settle. If your sticks are dry from shipping they will "suck up" the RH when you open the lid/door you lose some RH. Also a hygro is not like a clock it doesn't report the RH changes instantly I give my hygro 24 - 36 hours to adjust to any of the adjustments I make.

I know ifs tough as you want to take care of your collection and you want to make everything all right.

My suggestion is take out what you plan to smoke in the next week put it in the week or so and then leave the rest in your humi and leave the humi open in your vino. Let them all settle undistrubed for as long as possible. I would also consider going to your B&M and getting some plan empty boxes i.e. PSD 4, Petite Edmondo, boxes with lots of exposed wood. These will take up space and add to the leveling out of the RH. They will suck up some RH when you add them but they will help later in keeping it constant. Also the less space you have the lest hard the beads have to work as they,depending on the volume you have, take time to release the RH. The boxes are also nice looking and to store singles.

Rest assured once you have everything in your vino conditioned and you fill it up more it will become rock solid as far as RH. I have a fridge and it sits on 60 % for months and never moves it becomes tough to even adjust the RH if you want to.

Hope this helps. Also if your just to neverous and need instant results I suggest you look at something more active on the RH front look at a Hydra this will release RH once it hit a certain level and is more active then beads.