50/50 isn't necessary, but it IS desireable ... the PG half of the mix has a tendency to "regulate" the evaporation of the distilled water half ... it tends to promote a more stable environment.
Don't rush the seasoning of your work humidor ... that time will seem very well spent and of negligible consequence after your box is funtioning well ... in the interim, carry a few smokes in a pocket case or do as I did and make a temporary humi using an wooden old cigar box ...
I began using one at work at a time when I found myself with several zip-lock baggies of cigars that I'd got in a trade ... at the time, MrsS was away and I hadn't wanted to have them delivered to the house and be left sitting on my porch all afternoon in mid-summer sunshine ... frankly, I could probably have left them in the zip-lock bags and they'd have been ok, but instead, I went by one of the local stores in SF and got an empty wood box ... then, I stopped by the drugstore down the street and got a gallon of distilled water and a small tupperware gizzy that is about the same size as a small jar of jam ... popping into the floral shop half way down the block, I got a little chunk of wet florist foam from her, then came back to my office ... I lightly wiped the inside of the cigar box with some distilled water ... trimmed the chunk of florist foam to fit the little tupperware gizzy and used a nail to poke holes in it's lid ... after adding distilled water, I put the lid on the litte tupperware thing, put it inside the cigar box, then put my cigars inside, still in their zip-lock bags, but with the zippers open ...
It worked just fine ... so well, in fact, that while I'd thought of getting a small humi for work, I decided to spend the money on cigars instead and am still using my little home-made humi at work ...
