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remington850 Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2003, 5:14 AM EST
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Hello all. I have a question that hopefully I can get answered because it is driving me crazy. Lately some of my cigars, not all, have been getting a small wrapper split, about 1/2 inch long. This only happens after I light the cigar. It seems to happen to only the cigars that I keep in my biggest humidor but the RH reads usually between 66 and 70. Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed.
hoagie55 Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2003, 6:30 AM EST
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It sounds like your humidity is too high. You might want to try recalibrating your humidifier via the salt test. Do a search here on the bulletin board on "salt test" to get the proper instructions.

Good luck!
Matt
Skatty2hotty Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2003, 6:44 AM EST
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Go right to the CI website and check out the Cigar 101 section. Aww hell, here's the link...
http://www.cigarsinterna...om/html/cig101_12st.asp
Tobasco Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2003, 9:15 AM EST
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Too much humidity. :>)

Mag
remington850 Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2003, 10:17 AM EST
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Thanks all, I will calibrate the hygrometer and see where I go from there. I thought that the credo was suppose to help to keep the humidity down? Also how do I get rid of the excess humidity with out harming my gars?
Slimboli Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2003, 5:23 PM EST
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remington850 --- all the 'credo' does ... is give the cigars the humidity they need. If you use it with the 50/50 PG solution ... it chemically helps to maintain that humidity at around 70% ...

... just open up your humidor for a few hours. It won't hurt your cigars, and will bring down the humidity level.
remington850 Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Jun 12 2003, 4:22 AM EST
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Slimboli,

Thanks for the help. I try to use a 50/50 solution but maybe I mixed it wrong last time. I will air out my humidor and remix some more solution. Thanks to all for your help.
remington850 Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Jun 16 2003, 6:34 AM EST
Joined: 05-28-2003
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Did the salt test this weekend and found my hygrometer was way off. It was reading 59!!!! So I guess that when I was tring to keep it at 70 I was really hitting 81 or so. Thanks to all who responded it was a big help.

Nirad
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