Posted: 7/3/2012 8:04:49 PM EDT
| Well here in Florida right now it is hot as balls outside and like 8 million percent humidity. I can barely even enjoy a smoke any more. It's just so hot and muggy outside. Lately my sticks have been burning like crap. They are always kept at 63-64% humidty and have smoked perfectly until lately when it has gotten really bad outside. I recalibrated my hygros and they still read the same as before I did so I am keeping the same RH as always. Could the miserable humidity outside be affecting my sticks that much? Last night I started a PSD4 and it was fantastic, by the midway point it seemed soggy and burned and smoked like shit. I thought I had it made in the winter when half of you guys were freezing your asses off for a smoke and now in the summer I can't have a good smoke. |
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Dry box a few and see if that helps out.
Take an empty smaller travel carrier (I know you have a few) and place a few sticks in there with no humidification and let them rest for a day or so. See if that helps bring them back to life. But in the fridge they should be shielded from the outside air humidity. There is always a chance you got a dud or two but they should be good to go. Are you sitting down outside for a while before you light up? I ask because the humidity has been brutal with temps in the 90's here for the last two weeks and I haven't had any issues keeping my cigars lit....it is my pipe that has given me fits....so I put it away for a bit. Echo |
| Drybox was my next thing to try. I keep my herf-a-dors unhumidified so they will work fine. Thing is the sticks seem to be fine out of the cooler but go to hell while I'm smoking them. I did add some dry beads to the fridge as well in an attempt to drop the humidity in there a bit just in case. |
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Sorry, but I doubt he can "dry" box any cigar when the humidity is higher than 70%.
I have similar experience when I spent my 3 weeks in Georgia, hot and humid, even in the evening, worse at downtown Atlanta, damn near ruin my aged Monticristo @2. The only solution is to keep your cigar in an air conditioned room (then you can dry box), and smoke in an air conditioned room. |
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OK.....my styrofoam cooler started to sweat a few minutes ago....
Was going to light up a little ISOM but decided to retreat to the AC for a bit.... I will be waiting for darkness to fall but last night it never got cooler than 82 outside.....so this is global warming.... Now when I post this same message in January, I will fully believe it!!! I will hold of for a much larger ISOM tonight....something with more age than my 10 y/o son on it!!! 
Tease pic.....Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona....yes, it IS as long as the small box....just fits inside for the ride home.... 
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Smoked another stick today and it was much better although it was not nearly as humid out today. I really think the humidity outside is the issue. Yup. If it's really humid outside (or raining) I get about an hour before I start having issues with canoeing and having to relight. I keep my humidor at 64-65%. If you just brought it out into a nearly 100% humid environment your cigar might not get too wet in a short time, but light it and start pulling the very humid air through it and it raises the sticks humidity fairly quickly. I'd try dry boxing, maybe find some 50% silica desiccant packets and plan your smokes ahead by two or three days. |
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OK.....my styrofoam cooler started to sweat a few minutes ago.... Was going to light up a little ISOM but decided to retreat to the AC for a bit.... I will be waiting for darkness to fall but last night it never got cooler than 82 outside.....so this is global warming.... Now when I post this same message in January, I will fully believe it!!! I will hold of for a much larger ISOM tonight....something with more age than my 10 y/o son on it!!!
Tease pic.....Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona....yes, it IS as long as the small box....just fits inside for the ride home....
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh65/EchoAngel17/b2b0c12b.jpg And
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