Recent content by Skarekrough

The appeal of the beads for me was that I'm not able to keep the humidors in an environment that's terribly controlled. The temperature fluctuates and the humidity can adjust very quickly, faster than I can keep on it alot of times. Past having them adding, I tend to double the volume of beds...

Out of curiousity.... I purchased a pound bag of beads about a month and a half ago and they've been great. As I had a situation with two humidors that had gone dry on me, and one that I discovered had a terrible seal, they've been a godsend for getting my cigars back up to speed in a timely...

Well, sure.... But the problem is that in a few months I'll be on the tail-end of "cigar season" for New England. Yeah, I'm a fair weather fan, I admit it. The good news is that it was around 3 weeks ago that I started re-humidification of the whole lot. Last Sunday I noticed the problems...

I make no excuses for myself....I neglected the levels on my humidor over the long New England winter and am now paying the price with dry cigars. I got the levels to 70% about 20 days ago. About 14 days in I was pleased to find the cigars that weren't in the wrapper or cellophane (whichever...