cacman wrote:67°F with 65% humidity here. Works great for me. Would worry about mold at 72 humidity.
This thread in conjunction with an article in the new Famous Smokeshop mag I got in the mail the other day got me thinking. So I did some checking here in the house. I put one of my humidity gages in my office where my humidors are, and one in the bedroom where we're running a humidifier. The results were interesting.
In my office, it just read "LO". In the bedroom, with the humidifier running 24/7? 34%@70f.
No damned wonder my wooden humidors are struggling. So I went back to the cedar veneer lined sistema container this morning and it's already cruising back to 65% with the heartfelt beads, and a 60 gram boveda.
My winador in the basement is cruising along no problems. But it's sealed up very well around the door so that one isn't an issue.
Lesson learned. I guess I can get used to the plastic. Maybe. Eventually. Damned if I don't love my humidors. Wood and glass do have a panache, but it's not worth ruining good cigars over.