I think this is one of those things you have to experience for yourself -- you take the cello off until you have a damaged cigar and then you leave it on after that. At least that's what happened to me.
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Same here. I figured I liked my cigars like I like my women....


Then I damaged one.
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OH and you can never have too many beads, ok maybe if they take up more room than your sticks, but more beads just mean your box will recover faster after you open it. I started with the Bol. Packs but then moved up to the beads because you have more control over RH% and you don't have to pay to replace them in a few months they last basically forever (disclaimer forever is a long time, but they last a really really long time)
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Damaged a cigar? Or a woman? :-):-)
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I guess I should be a little specific in my question, im deployed to Afghanistan and can't just go get beads (without having them shipped to me) so I was looking at a quick "home" remedy to bring down humidity. My humidor is at 80% RH.
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First off, if you don't have a 2-way humidifier like hcm or heartfelt beads or bovedia packs, then remove the humidifier from the humidor.

If the ambient indoor RH is lower than 80%, then leave the humidor open for a bit.

You can also fill a small dish (depth isn't all that important, but exposed surface area is, so the wider the better) with uncooked plain dried white rice and place that in your humidor until the humidity drops. It might take some time and you might have to dry the rice in a low temp oven for 10-15 minutes to get it to suck up a lot of moisture.
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I do have a DryMista tube but I took that out a few days ago, im just in a very humid area. How hight can the RH get before I need to worry about mold?
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Low-mid 70's.
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50 % - 1/2 dozen to the other .... ME TOO
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:-)
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Until today I would unwrap my cigars foe ascetic purposes but the wisdom of the wiser statesmen has convinced me otherwise. I am now a changed man.
As for the extra humidity I've used the rice trick and it works. Too humid and smoking a cigar can be like smoking a brownie, to quote an unfortunate friend.
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I know there was one year 07-08 that they were wrapped and packaged still a little wet which caused the mold issues.

I think could easily happen to any cigar that gets packaged like the Anejos. I'm sure since its a high demand stick they do get rushed out to the consumer.
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I think that was the year they got stuck in shipping as well. So they sat a lot longer than they usually do at higher temperatures.
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I leave my cigars in the cellophane; added piece of mind that they are less likely to get damaged. I also like them in the cellophane for transportation; I don’t use a Herf-a-dor for short trips from my house directly to a smoking spot, and usually just put my sticks in a ziplock bag.
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Omg that's awesome, totally the same lol
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