new upright humidor seasoning

bobd:

Hey guys, I have not posted on here in a long time. I recieved a nice upright 7 drawer humi from my wife. About a 150 count. The rest of my humi's are all traditional desktops. How do I go about seasoning an upright with all these drawers? Also any advice on where to place beads once it is seasoned? Thanks, Bob

I have 100 ct three draw up right glass top. Now the way I did it has worked for me but after being school by the BOTL Here I would do it a little differently. I used distilled water and a new sponge and wiped it down each draw after letting it sit for 24 hours empty and calibrating the hydrometer salt test. I wiped it down with very little water. set the sponge inside for another 24 hours took it out and meter was reading 69-70% place my sticks in the draws and used two beads jars from C.COM in two draws and placed styro=foam in the last draw until I could place sticks in it Luke, JD and MVW67 and other helped me with that. through the summer it stayed at a constant 69 - 70% checked it each day no issues. I keep it in my room on the side of my dresser. the top draw I placed one jar of beads fits with no problem, lower ones the top draw has to be taken out before I can place a jar in second draw; that was all I did and know issues until summer was over and fall came. Then my hydrometer went wacky after I place the bovda pack 69% in there no one told me to place the pacs in there just want to ensure the 69% at all times. Luke told me to take everything out beads and all and just leave the boveada packs inside for a while and see what happens. Well the 75% humi went down to 70% and I put the sticks back in with only the boveda packs no more issues my S/S sent me a new digital Hydrometer and I put it inside it and added one bead jar since and constant 68 to 69 % for the past two weeks or more each draw has sticks and have been smoking sticks from each one with know issues

I run my up right at 65 to 69 % and have Boveda packets in each draw but only to bead jars in the top and second draw none in the third one

bobd:

Hey guys, I have not posted on here in a long time. I recieved a nice upright 7 drawer humi from my wife. About a 150 count. The rest of my humi's are all traditional desktops. How do I go about seasoning an upright with all these drawers? Also any advice on where to place beads once it is seasoned? Thanks, Bob

i think i have a similar humidor and i seasoned with boveda 84. i left them in there for around 2 weeks. I use boveda packets exclusively and since humidity falls rather than raises I put all the 70% boveda packets on the top level of the humidor. There is a tiny bit of difference from the bottom to the top but we are talking 1-2% at the top it keeps around 67 and at the bottom around 69. I store my CCs or other cigars that i want at a lower % in a smaller humidor that i control with boveda also.