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I'm new on here and to cigars in general, so please bear with me. I am in the military and when I went to Iraq I took a 5 count plastic humidor with a little rectangular water catcher thingy, I don't know what it is called. Any ways I filled it up with water and filled up the humidor with my favorite Cohiba's. After a couple of weeks there I finally had some time to smoke, but when I opened up the humidor the cigars were moldy and moist. Needless to say I had to throw them away. My questions are, how long can I go with cigars in the travel humidor without the water thing? I want to be able to go for about a month or two before I smoke them. If I can't go without the water thing how do I get the humidity right? Thanks for your time.
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Welcome to Stogie Chat, you should go to the new members thread and introduce yourself. AS far as your travel humidor goes, you could get a "drymistat" tube to put in there. It is a little tube with gel in it, it is supposed to put out the perfect humididty. When it needs to be recharged you just add a little water. The high temperature in Iraq is probably going to be a problem. I beleive the humidity goes up as the temp does, I could be wrong. Somebody had a chart that showed the relationship of temp and humidity. If you are keeping some smokes in a travel humidor for a few days, you would be ok with out humidifiction, but for a few months you are going to need something
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So what part of Iraq are you in?
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First and foremost thank you for your service to our country and welcome to our humble little corner of the internet.
To whit as a rule of thumb no humidification is necessary in a good otterbox traveldor. The cigars will stay good for a good three weeks imho. There is nothing to absorb the humidity in a closed environment like that so you're begging for mold.
If you're going to store them longer get a 50 ct humi where the spanish cedar / honduran mahogany will help to buffer the rh and then get some humi beads for it.
Best of luck and thank you again.
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Thanks guys, I have one of those little black plastic travel humidors that close up pretty tight, it looks like a little pelican case. Im near Baghdad, but I'm leaving in a couple of weeks to move over to Afghanistan. I won't be able to get replacement cigars there as quick as here, I was hoping I could just close them up in the humidor since it was air tight and have them last until I could get more cigars which could be a month or so.
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skeltonsd Wrote:Thanks guys, I have one of those little black plastic travel humidors that close up pretty tight, it looks like a little pelican case. Im near Baghdad, but I'm leaving in a couple of weeks to move over to Afghanistan. I won't be able to get replacement cigars there as quick as here, I was hoping I could just close them up in the humidor since it was air tight and have them last until I could get more cigars which could be a month or so.
with a good tight seal you should have no worries for a month or so. just take out the humidifying agent.
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Thats what I wanted to hear, thanks!