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Mraia Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 10:46 AM EST
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We hear all the time to trust Bovedas. Toss the hygrometers and simply believe that the Bovedas are doing what they say they are going to do. I get the mentality of that, absolutely! But I also have learned that I am a little OCD about this hobby!
So the question is do they always, unequivocally, work? Of course there are outliers or bad apples in a bunch but are you gentlemen 100% behind these little packs of salt water? My cigar oasis digital hygrometers have been calibrated and yet Tupper readings are never spot on. I’d love to listen to Palama and ditch em…but…but🥺
Stogie1020 Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 10:54 AM EST
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If your cigars fluctuate from 63% to 67% over the course of a week and then go back, do you care?

I mean, if you want to purchase lab quality humidificaiton systems that adjust temperature (remember, it's "relative" humidity) and humidity at five second intervals, be my guest, but think about the warehouse in the Dominican Republic or Nicarauga where the cigars are stored after rolling. Think they have lab quality stuff? Doubt it. Hell, they probably just leave it up to the weather down there...

TLDR: You are WAY overthinking this. Chill out and enjoy your cigars.
Mraia Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 11:26 AM EST
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I know, Stogie…I’m trying buddy. Lol! I’m 57, great wife great kids, relatively healthy… hell right now I’m in St Thomas at the beach typing this and what am I thinking about?? Cigars, humidity, why I can’t light up on my balcony here, etc
I promise you I’m NOT this OCD about anything else in my simple life.
Bear with me Friends…this obsession will pass.

Right??
Stogie1020 Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 11:43 AM EST
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Wait, you LEFT YOUR CIGARS at home? You mean you are not looking directly at them at ALL TIMES????

Bro, do you even care?
Mraia Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 11:55 AM EST
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Lol!! 😂😂😂
DrMaddVibe Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 12:29 PM EST
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Jesus....you're in St.Thomas gabbing away about a humidor that's here in the states???

Chill the F out. This hobby of ours...its for relaxation. Its not built for stress and woes. This is how we wind down, not wind up.

So, drink a rum drink...bang the wife...drink a rum drink...light up a cigar and have a rum drink...lather, rinse and repeat. Whatever you think is going on back home isn't important. At all.

PS: you're out of Scotch and your vacuum bag needs to be replaced.
frankj1 Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 1:18 PM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Jesus....you're in St.Thomas gabbing away about a humidor that's here in the states???

Chill the F out. This hobby of ours...its for relaxation. Its not built for stress and woes. This is how we wind down, not wind up.

So, drink a rum drink...bang the wife...drink a rum drink...light up a cigar and have a rum drink...lather, rinse and repeat. Whatever you think is going on back home isn't important. At all.

PS: you're out of Scotch and your vacuum bag needs to be replaced.

this is a post worthy of praise.
especially the PS
Sunoverbeach Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 1:25 PM EST
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If your Bovedas are as flaccid as you are after a few rounds of rum and banging, you can trust them
Mraia Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 2:03 PM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Jesus....you're in St.Thomas gabbing away about a humidor that's here in the states???

Chill the F out. This hobby of ours...its for relaxation. Its not built for stress and woes. This is how we wind down, not wind up.

So, drink a rum drink...bang the wife...drink a rum drink...light up a cigar and have a rum drink...lather, rinse and repeat. Whatever you think is going on back home isn't important. At all.

PS: you're out of Scotch and your vacuum bag needs to be replaced.


You’re right, of course. I am embarrassed.

Look, if you don’t mind stopping by the liquor store to replenish my scotch I will Venmo you the money
Vacuum bags…never knew we had em!
Mraia Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 2:04 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
If your Bovedas are as flaccid as you are after a few rounds of rum and banging, you can trust them

Lol…hey!
Jakethesnake86 Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Aug 22 2023, 10:48 PM EST
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Put some 65 % ers in and go. I trust mine
KingoftheCove Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 5:48 PM EST
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The only bummer about Bovedas is you have to let them breathe every 48 hours or so, even if it’s just for 10-15 seconds.
Otherwise they can burst, and leak fluid all over your cigars.
You do have someone checking your storage every few days…………….right?
Palama Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 6:00 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
The only bummer about Bovedas is you have to let them breathe every 48 hours or so, even if it’s just for 10-15 seconds.
Otherwise they can burst, and leak fluid all over your cigars.
You do have someone checking your storage every few days…………….right?


Really? Eh?

I never heard of that. Where’d you find that info? Think














Or, you’re just messing with Mr. OCD. jester
JGRAZ Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 6:29 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
The only bummer about Bovedas is you have to let them breathe every 48 hours or so, even if it’s just for 10-15 seconds.
Otherwise they can burst, and leak fluid all over your cigars.
You do have someone checking your storage every few days…………….right?


Never heard this before. Gotta believe if that was true they would have been out of business years ago.
KingoftheCove Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 7:53 PM EST
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Palama wrote:


Or, you’re just messing with Mr. OCD. jester

Whistle

Mraia Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 8:57 PM EST
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Okay okay.. I went a whole day without obsessing about this crap! I just finished a My Father Le Bijou 1922 and all is well in my work…
Until now…
😛
LeeBot Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 9:32 PM EST
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You're going to be fine. As long as you pretreated the Bovedas the way you're supposed to, your golden for a long time.
Huzza3045 Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 9:33 PM EST
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LeeBot wrote:
You're going to be fine. As long as you pretreated the Bovedas the way you're supposed to, your golden for a long time.


Pretreated? What do you mean?
frankj1 Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 9:36 PM EST
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this won't end well...
Mraia Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 9:39 PM EST
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Nope I took care of the pre-treatment. With the mixture I used I should be good at least 2-3 years, give or take.
I wish I’d known about this a few years back…
Homebrew Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Aug 23 2023, 10:07 PM EST
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Your cigars will be fine. As long as you have a shpo to protect you.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)Beer
bencounter Offline
#22 Posted: Sat, Aug 26 2023, 10:36 AM EST
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Huzza3045 wrote:
Pretreated? What do you mean?

how to pretreat boveda?
Palama Offline
#23 Posted: Sat, Aug 26 2023, 1:33 PM EST
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Huzza3045 wrote:
Pretreated? What do you mean?


Hahahaha! LOL

You fallin’ for the azzhattery! Flapper
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