New Savoy Desktop Humidor Humidity Question (Thanks in Advance)

Originally Posted by joeobx

This. And toss the foam that came with it. Put a dish with distilled water in and let sit for a week or so. Buy some beads. Put your smokes in a Ziplock or Tupperware untill the humi is ready.

So, I took the shotglasses out and placed a larger dish in with more distilled water.

Also, I'm doing a hygro test using my digital and analog hygro... I've read leave it in a bag with salt in the cap for 4 hours AND another saying 24... which is it?

It sounds like I should just leave the dish of water in the humidor for 2 weeks (to season) and THEN take out the water and put the cigars in...

The B&M I bought it from did offer to let me leave it in their humidor if i wanted... should I take him up on that?

-RR

Thanks so much for all your help.

Here's where I'm at.

I had purchased an otterbox 15 count cigar caddy so i put all my sticks in zip lock bags (each brand in it's own) and placed them all in the caddy. I figure this would be as air tight as I could get them (my tupperware sometimes leaks liquids so not air tight).

I put my digital and analog hygro in a bag and did a salt test. Started at 8pm last night. The digital is stablized at 76%. The analog was reading 70% so i calibrated (has a screw in back) and it's now reading 74% stable (it's off a few but still not bad).

The humidor itself is just sitting shut. I've got a boveda 72% bag in it (i had bought it the first day so might as well use it). Also, I have a bowl filled with distilled water in it with a paper towel. The 2 humidification devices (one gel beads one stock) had been filled with a propylene glycol solution at the store and those too are in the humidor.

Will i notice much difference in seasoning if I leave it for 2 weeks compared to a week??

Once it's been a week, I should take out the water dish, put in my hygrometer and see if the humidity stabilizes. I should also probably refill the 2 humidification devices at that time too.

Again, thanks for all the help on this new hobby, my GF hates it already!!

-RR

[dwoodward]

2 weeks is best in my opinion. Keep the water dish in there for that long as well, don't remove anything, a sponge will help, rotate the sponge in the water every couple days to make sure it's saturated.

Don't worry about the GF, mine hated it too at first.

A little tip for that, convince her to take a few puffs when your smoking, mine ended up liking a Perdomo Grand Cru and started experimenting, now she's already claiming my old humidor when I get my new wineador all set up.

Originally Posted by dwoodward

2 weeks is best in my opinion. Keep the water dish in there for that long as well, don't remove anything, a sponge will help, rotate the sponge in the water every couple days to make sure it's saturated.

Don't worry about the GF, mine hated it too at first.

A little tip for that, convince her to take a few puffs when your smoking, mine ended up liking a Perdomo Grand Cru and started experimenting, now she's already claiming my old humidor when I get my new wineador all set up.

While staying at the Shangri-La in the Philippines, I got her to try a Cuban Montecristo no. 4 which she liked.

When you say sponge, I'm guessing you mean just a straight SPONGE, not the one with one side that has the rough side, or would that be fine too?

Thanks!