As always, appreciate the knowledge drop and helping not only myself but I'm sure others to get the most out of my cigars and the smoking experience. If I see a hand holding a cigar with a razor straight burn on IG I'd immediately check if it was you hahaha
Good tips. I just have a question. Because Boveda is a 2 way system why take it out? It won’t hurt to keep ‘em in . Also, when you do take out the Bóvedas, where do you store them so they can be used again?
Good question. It’s a little different when you have weather tight containers. Let’s say you are maintaining your humidor at 69/69 . Then you add a brand new 320gram, 69% Boveda pack. You then add cigars from the B&M or from an online distributor. Most of these cigars come wet. What happens to the excess humidity when the Boveda packs are already completely saturated? I will tell you. That excess humidity remains inside the humidor without being removed. Boveda is really good when you have leaks and open and close the humidor lots. That way the humidity leaks by the seal and the Boveda can bump up the humidity as the unit drifts down, or replace the humidity lost due to the constant opening and closing of the humidor. The Boveda pack continues to do this until it’s shriveled up. Then you recharge it or replace it. Also, how long does a Boveda pack last before they begin to degrade? Does the Boveda behave the same after you recharge it? I have found that, although Boveda has never cause me mold issues. I have noticed that cigars will become wet even with Boveda. Those beads can only absorb so much moisture and will only keep equilibrium within your humidor for so long. As they degrade like all things do, they become less efficient at maintaining their two way humidification. There is no 100% full proof method. You have to monitor so when I feel like my cigars are becoming wet. I remove the Boveda and store them in an empty weather tight container. Also, here is a simple way to think about it. There is no reason to continue to humidify cigars that are already at the correct humidity. 😃
I just got done watching this video. I must say as a smoker for 30+ years. Fantastic video for the newbies. Lol! Keep these videos going for people that need to know. A quick shout out to my peeps. NY. - NJ 🤘😎 I will be posting this content in some groups. Best of the best to you and yours. PSSITA. 💨💨💨
Thank you bro! My wife and I are happy to know that you enjoyed the video. 😃 Hopefully your friend group with enjoy the content and find the information to be useful as well.
Imo the 70/70 "rule" came about in a time when cigar sales were insanely high and was popularized by publications that were catering to a national/international market as a rule of thumb, not a hard and fast rule. Back home in NYC I store around 69/69. Down here in Florida I stay around 63-66/65-70 for my non Cubans and 60-62 for my Cubans. But I always dry box 💯 A LOT of the issues surrounding Cubans is smoking em too wet too! Also gotta calibrate your hygrometer or it's just an ornament. Glad they sleeping on the El Oso Blanco too lol Definitely requires some humidity control though.
Ok, want to try out dry boxing. Couple of questions first. Do you remove the cellophane from the cigars? Do you use a new humidor or an old cedar cigar box will do? Do you season the humidor prior to using it for dry boxing? A step by step tutorial video will be good, just saying. 😂 Finally, you said couple of days for dry boxing, but if you change your mind later, want to smoke another kind of cigar, can you reintroduce to the humidor or need One humidor? Sorry for all the questions. I’m just interested and want to make sure I don’t throw money away by messing up the cigars. Thank you my man!
Awesome! In order of your questions: Cellophane off, the more wood your dry box has the better, no seasoning the box- it needs to have no moisture i.e Dry Box haha. I have tons of videos on this subject. You just have to watch more videos. 😃 Sure, if you don’t want to smoke the cigar then reintroduce it to your long term storage. I dry box until the cigar feels good in hand, and you can hear the cigar open up. The band will also begin to move on the cigar. To simplify it more, I dry box until the cigar is between 60% to 63% under the cap. Anything more, I find to be wet. I have brought a cigar down to 58%\59% in order to get the cigar to open up.
Yes sir! That’s a sign of dry boxing a cigar. If a cigar’s ash doesn’t look like that, then the cigar has too much moisture. Moisture dilutes flavors and effects the draw of a cigar. So I always suggest dry boxing cigars. 😃
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You run the risk of drying out your cigars holding at such a low humidity for long term. The video below is Steve Saka explaining the range in which he keeps his personal humidor. He believes that 65% is the right number. He personally targets between 63% and 65%. As for myself, I believe that 66% to 68% is the right range. Your range is going to be based on where you live and the different tobaccos you have in your humidor. I have a lot of dominican tobacco in my humidor, so I tend to store at a higher humidity. With that being said, I don’t like smoking cigars at my long term storage range or even Saka’s goldie locks range. I believe the cigars are too wet. I dry box in order to fine tune and condition my cigars for smoking. That range for me tends to be between 60% to 63%. I will take a cigar lower even. It just depends on what the cigar needs. But holding all cigars at 58% for long term isn’t recommended. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AuwxiYJIseM.html
@Beeppoop My storage temperature is at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. I dry box my cigar between 60% -63% RH under the cap. I have even gone down as low as 58% under the cap to get the cigar to open up. 😃
