Whoa baby! I think Steve was trying to inject a bit of humor in the dialogue so don't get carried away.

I threw away all my garden crystals (actually they went into the garden) because the Climaxx beads work so well. My humis have never been so stable. I maintain 65% +/- pretty easily now and now longer have to worry about "dryboxing" cigars before I smoke them.

Life is good....and a Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I set up yet another Tuper this weekend. I played the Cigar Box Tetris game and had to come to the realization that this just ain't gonna work. Thanks to Gandolf's bomb and some recent Cbid wins, I had to go get another storage unit.

Wanted to test the landscape crystals theory so I mixed up some Soil Moist with 50/50 and let it soak up overnight. Put the gel crystals into a couple travel soap dish humidifiers, threw them into the tote it's holding steady at 69% per my digital humi which was salt tested to be dead on.

The tote is pretty much empty at this point (I'm sure Cbid and the BOTL will fix that). It's only 3 days into the experiment so we'll see how it goes.

The soil moist crystals: $10 for a one pound jar at Home Depot (only need a couple of teaspoons) . The 14 gallon tote, $10 at Home Depot. The gallon of distilled water $1 at the nearest pharmacy. The PG, $15 for a gallon on the web (gallon will last a lifetime).

Enjoying well some good smokes... Priceless

I generate my own homemade humidity but I can't post about it on a public forum ;0)

I still use both 50/50 with my humidifier and then I also use climax for my closed humidor/s... the climax by far is the route to go...

Hog

The Agrosoke crystals DO work. However, they are a pain is the a** to set up. I've been giving away the Agrosoke since I switched to Climmax. There's no guesswork and it's the best media I've ever used.

Still, if you use the Agrosoke, you'll find that you need to recharge it way less than with oasis foam. Remember to use PG 50/50 with the Agrosoke and don't overdo it with the solution.

Steve, you gave the "BEST" advise there is to give. Something that is "tried and true"! Blessed are they that have the eyes to see, the ears to hear etc, etc...

As I build and restore desktops,I follow these threads with great interest. No question that the oasis works. The crystals work too. But for a mess free(I don't like PG) space saving application, I like the beads. A couple tablespoons of distilled water on about an 1/8 of a pound and the average desktop is VERY stable at 65%RH (what I prefer) for 3 weeks or a month in the dead of winter. There are people that have tried to make their OWN beads with mixed results. Don't confuse them. The prepared Climmax Beads work great. With a pound you can humidify roughly 8 desktops. About $5 a humidor. Expensive? I think not. But if you prefer crystals or oasis or PG or 70%RH, I won't criticize.

Here's what I do. I found these small plastic tubes at Linens and Things. They are supposed to be used for filling with water and freezing.....then you place them inside a soda bottle or something so you can put ice in the bottle itself. So I picked up a bunch of these. I think you get like 15 of them in the package for like $3. They have a cap at each end too. So I take those and drill a bunch of small holes in the tube and fill it up with crystals. They are nice and small so you can just keep chucking them in the humidor to bring the humidity up slowly until it stabilizes........works like a charm.. Those tubes are nice and small too so they will fit in a travel humidor quite nicely too. I think they are about a 50 ring guage in diameter and about 4"....perfect!!!!

I anguish & anguish. Maybe I need to break down & buy me some of them climaxx beads. Can I pick em up at the local porn shop?