I'm a 65% to 68% kinda guy. Much higher and some sticks stay Too moist and if I don't pull them out for a day or 3 before smoking, they warm up at the light and the draw is to tuff. I like a nice lazy draw. Even at 68% I still like to pull them out a day ahead if I know I'm going to smoke that day.

Yes, I said moist...... ahead...... pull them out ....... and warm up!!! Cigars are sexy.

Pretty much the same for me except I go 69% for Connie and Cameroon wrapped smokes. At 65% I get too many cracks or splits with those.

Just haaad ta be different, didn'tcha? [frypan]

High end: 68

Same as the other Dan, when I got into cigars all the shpos and catalogues told me 70. But my cigars consistently would burn poorly, wrappers split and turned sour around halfway.

Also initially I was using a cheap China humidor and floral foam soaked in water and trusting the analog hygrometer that came with the cheap China humidor. I found cbid and won a $1 bid for a digital hygrometer along with my cigars and it was reading 75 so in an effort to go to 70 I didn't rewet the foams for a while. I noticed my cigars were smoking nicer, tasting better, and didn't get any split wrappers. The digital one was reading 66. I also found the forum section of this site around that time and learned about 2 way humidification and a sealed case storage method instead of the leaky wooden humidors.

My big humidor is a Pelican case I lined with cedar and I have about a dozen Boveda 65's in there with the cigar boxes and a pound of heartfelt 65% beads. I occasionally soak the beads and the bovedas take out the excess. My desktop is a handmade quality one and seals well, but definitely requires more maintenance. But that one I also do the beads and Boveda method. Bovedas are doing the maintenance and the beads are there to recharge the Bovedas.

Purdy sure Danm is talking about these.

You can get them here:

https://www.heartfeltindustries.com/products.asp?cat=65%25+Rh+Humidity+Beads 

I would like to try out 60-62ish to see if makes a big difference, but don't really know how to maintain that consistently without a Boveda.

NVM, just saw the 62% ones "for cannabis"...

"Wifey, I NEED to have weed, it's what these Bovedas are designed for!"

IIRC, back-in-the-day, ripoff dealers would “cut” their weed with oregano and only make deals at night so that the buyer couldn’t really see what was in the bag(s).

Well, that’s what I HEARD or mebbe read on the Innernets so don’t quote me. 😳

The old "oregano in your weed" trick... Only bettered by the old "weed in your oregano" trick which made pasta dishes SO much better.