Hello, from Chicago originally, transplanted in Louisiana. My humidor always maintained a constant 70 until I made this move. No matter what I do, Boveda packs or not, my humidor stays at a constant 80. What do yall do down here to keep your sticks at the proper humidity level??

Is your house air conditioned?

Are there enough Bovedas in there? Bovedas absorb humidity too, so if you use 62% packs, are they saturated?

What are you storing in? If it's a cheap chinese humidor and ambient humidity is high, you're going to want to switch to sealed storage.

Does your hygrometer suck? Are the cigars smoking wet? If the cigars smoke fine and the Bovedas aren't saturated, it's your hygrometer.

Maybe your humidor isn't fully sealed. I use to use a wood humidors but they were a PIA to maintain proper humidity and temp with the seasonal weather swings (humid summers, dry winters). I'm located at about the same latitude as you (I'm a transplant from the Midwest into MA) with similar weather.

My personal humidity preference is on the lower end of the 60's, 62 to 65 ish. For storage I use a wineador, coolerdor and a tupperdor along with beads and they seem to work just fine for a stable environment for my cigars.

I am in Ga I had to buy 6 of these .The ones I were using was a constant battle. I use heartfelt beads and bovedas.

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Put some salt in a little dish and place it in your humidor.
It will suck up the moisture. It will be fine.

But you won’t. You live in Louisiana…

As you see, most of the old heads on here have given up on wooden humidors except for maybe a desktop. A good cooler or all-weather plastic container is going to function much better with way less work. They're not as pretty, but sometimes form has to give way to function. Even the desktop can be a tupperware container.

Also, you can buy desiccant packs on the interweb for cheap. I have a bunch that are about the size of a mid-sized boveda. I put 5 or 6 in each box. One trick is that you can reuse them by drying them out using the defrost setting in the microwave or an oven set really low, like 120 or something.

My humidor is wood. And it’s very big. Size is a mixed blessing, but when it’s up to where you want it it’ll stay there longer.

For your issue you need two way humidity, and as stated by a smart BOTL above a mix of boveda and HF beads works great. There’s also a brand of beads which I cannot remember the name…CRPro (Bart) uses them and I want to say they’re a type of clay? They work similar to HF but take longer to get to RH, that people also swear by. Whatever you do don’t tell Carl if you use kitty litter. Which also works.

I was having a hellified problem with high RH and my cigars were showing symptoms of smoking “wet”. I bought a bunch of cheap hygrometers from the big A shopping site and determined that my hygrometers were doing just fine. I broke down and bought the sealed storage food containers that so many brothers above mentioned. I use the Sistema brand that has the snap top handles. I use 62RH Bovedas, the large size that supposed to be for 50 cigars approximately. I also bought some cheap Spanish Cedar veneer sheets to lay my cigars on inside the container. My smaller ring gauge cigars and lighter colored tobacco were fine to smoke about 10 days later. My really dark Maduro, Oscuro and thick ring cigars took a month to six weeks to level off. I had to “burb” my containers every day for a few weeks to help the process along, and I’ll note that the humidity inside my home is less than 65.

The snap ring acrylic humidor jars with the silicone seal also work like a charm though they are much more expensive when you compare storage capacity to the rectangular food storage containers mentioned above.

I hope you can get your storage where you want it. Be patient, even after your storage RH looks like it is coming to acceptable levels you will need to let the cigars rest in order to dry out all the way to the core.

I'm in the south subs of Chicago area. I use a wine fridge and put in 65% bovedas and have no issues. What hygrometer are you using that says 80?

Although I use non wooden humidors, I still keep the wooden cedar boxes and stuff within the "humidors." They act as a cushion for maintaining humidity (suck in and bleed out humidity) as needed plus the cedar smell and taste is nice (in my opinion). Spanish cedar not the red cedar that you'd use for clothing storage or closet stuff.. and things... and stuff.

I don’t buy singles I always buy boxes all my smokes are in there boxes when stored. The singles I have gotten on here went into 2 wooden humidors that I am trying to quit using . Fixing to empty them out though.

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Very clever salt hack

You probably need to get your AC looked at first. Unless you are clinically insane and not using AC in the summer...in Louisiana... In which case...man....

Anyway, I live in Florida, its as humid or more here. Your AC should be keeping your ambient humidity around 55 to begin with, so the only way you should be hitting 80 is either a bad hydrometer or you're somehow putting excess moisture into your humidor. Is it doubling as a hamper for sweaty gymn clothes or something? Lol. Anyway, 62-65% bovedas ought to work fine.

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