I have had a few recent experiences of wrappers splitting as the cigar burns. Have had trouble with stabilizing humidity. Any insight on this?

Thanks

You pretty much answered your own question. Big swings are bad. Although it sounds like you may have the RH too high to get if they are splitting.

What's going on with your humidor? Is it new, large with just a few sticks in it?

Here's a little cigar 101 for you. When a cigar starts to dry out the wrapper dries out first, when that happens like leather it shrinks. When that cigar is placed in a humidor and the humidty is reintroduced to that cigar the filler and binder swell and as a result the wrapper often splits.

There are other things can cause wrappers to split, poor construction is often the culprit.

And of course ensure you have a stable humidity level in your humidor. 68-74% is a pretty wide range, but it seems to work great for me.

So far the answers above are true. On the humidity level, I keep my humis right around 65% and try to keep things below 70%. I'm out here in CA, so not sure if the east coast likes hight %.

humidor is full...approx 75 sticks...they have been drying out a bit too much lately so I put an extra humidifier in it...that's probably the problem I guess...should I take it out? This humidor is the one I am in the most so the humidity never gets above 60.

Thanks for your thoughts.

BTW, a month ago I put two climmax tubes in, in addition to two round humidifiers. About a week ago I put in a pillow style humidifier. Sounds like alot, huh?

Now how can I save these sticks from further probs? Got nothing real cheap in this humi...fuentes, gurks, excals, bahia, etc

That souns like a lot og humidification for a small humidoe. Have you calibrated your hygrometer? It may not be telling you the truth.

Lets try that again, with proper spelling this time - had to turn the Ebonics key off.....

That sounds like a lot of humidification for a small humidor. Have you calibrated your hygrometer? It may not be telling you the truth.

Really, that sounds like waaay too much for a small box.

I have 2 hygrometers in my humi just so I can cross ref between them.

BTW, both were way off when new and checked with the "salt" method.

You should be able to get a feel of the humidity in the box by feeling the cedar and rolling your cigars between your fingers.

my hygrom is calibrated, just last night as a matter of fact. I removed some of the humidifiers. Just the climmax tubes (2) and one round left in.

Will the cigars stabilize if I just leave that humidor closed for a while?

Try taking out a few cigars for the next few days enjoyment and placing them in a tupperware container, then let your humi rest for a few days without opening it. Then check it and see how its doing. This should help. BTW, is the humidor new? It could be that you needed to let the wood soak up all the moisture and have it break in before placing your cigars in it. I know when I first got my humidor, I placed my cigars in them and it took a couple of weeks before things settled down. Give it some time, and in the meantime, let your humi rest and it will stabilize itself.

With that much humidification it should be way over 60%. Check the hygrometer.

Do what the others have suggested first. Take all your cigars out and get the empty box itself stabilized somewhere around 70%. You have to have a known value to start with.

Once you get the empty box holding steady for a week, then add your gars back in a few at a time and see what happens.

gandalf907 you made me laugh when you brought up the ebonics key. Thanks for the laugh- Gunflint