This is one of the best threads on the forum.
Once again I salvaged some cigars that weren't smoking well.
10/12 days in the dry box and they were fine.
Smoking a Holy Lance Maduro, one of my favorite smokes. This was from a box that I put back for years with the cello on the box. They channeled unreal. Time and dry boxing saved the box.
Do Have to touch up now and then, but a damn fine smoke.
This is one of the best threads ever.
I had some problems with various boxes that I had aged with the cellophane on the boxes.
They were not smokeable.
Then folks in the forum suggested dry boxing.
I salvaged several boxes that are smoking wonderfully now by dry boxing them
To be clear
There is no hope for cigars that are constructed poorly.
However, hygrometers must be calibrated correctly.
Calibrate for temp first and then calibrate humidity.
I calibrate temps using a thermopen product, but whatever works for you to calibrate the temp.
Then to calibrate RH I...
Suggest you try dry boxing them.
Also suggest you try getting different hygrometers.
Different hygrometers and dry boxing has worked for me.
There is a thread in the forum on dry boxing
Smoking an Illusione Singulare Rose Croix from 2013. Really nice smoke. Has needed a bit of touchup now and then. Hasn't bothered me in the slightest. Some of the best smokes I've had need that.
Thanks for that link, Blinded by Science.
Thanks for also not giving me grief about not having searched.
If I had, I would have come up with that recent thread. Great thread.
I've got a lot going on, and in my haste didn't search, because it was something I had been trying to get around to...
I have been using multiple cheapies and calibrating them annually when I change batteries. Calibrating with 65% humipacks (multiple) in double plastic bags.
Then I had some issues where the cigars were clearly over humidified.
So, I bought some thermoworks pocket hygrometers...
I have been using multiple cheapies and calibrating them in a double bagged plastic with multiple 65% humipacks.
Then I had some problems indicating over humidified and bought a couple of ThermoWorks RT819 Pocket TH Temperature/Humidity Pen
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