Effects of RH

[BlindedByScience]

Originally Posted by shilala

I think I'm starting to hit that phase where I don't want to struggle with my smokes anymore, I just want to enjoy them. The easier it is keeping them, the more fun it is.

QFT....thanks for writing my post for me..... I quoted the last sentence as it's the one that I agree with the most.

Anything over 70% and the risk of mold is great. Below that....round up a hundred experienced cigar enthusiasts and ask them what RH they smoke at. You'll get answers from 55% to 70%, I promise you. When I was new at the game, I'd freak out over a point or two in the coolers. You know what? A point or two almost doesn't matter, IMHO.

I have a tall, vertical Staebell humidor. The RH controller is in the upper 2/3 of the cabinet. With a set point of 65%, the RH runs about 63% in the top, about 67% in the bottom. So, I age in the bottom of the cabinet, and smoke out of the top. Works fantastically.

Like most have said - start at 65% and see what you think.

[Brutus2600]

Originally Posted by NotFromHere

Anything over 70% and the risk of mold is great. Below that....round up a hundred experienced cigar enthusiasts and ask them what RH they smoke at. You'll get answers from 55% to 70%, I promise you. When I was new at the game, I'd freak out over a point or two in the coolers. You know what? A point or two almost doesn't matter, IMHO.

Hah! So true. I think my little desktop humidor lived in half a dozen different places in my house when I first started smoking, just trying to find the place that was closest to 70 degrees. And using the little Xikar gel containers to keep it at 70% RH was all I could do not to freak out over why it wasn't staying within a point or two of 70%.

Years later I found out that the digital hygro I was using sucked, and was probably off possibly as much as 10 points, so there was a good chance I was keeping them at way higher than I should've been.