# Best Practices for Maintaining Your Humidor

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Humidor maintenance is — admittedly — not the most fun part of the cigar hobby. However, a humidor is essential for keeping cigars in their ideal smoking condition. A humidor doesn’t require much tinkering once you’ve set it up, but knowing how to keep it functioning could save you a lot of stress. Here are a few best practices for maintaining your humidor. </span></p>

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# Best Practices for Maintaining Your Humidor

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Humidor maintenance is — admittedly — not the most fun part of the cigar hobby. However, a humidor is essential for keeping cigars in their ideal smoking condition. A humidor doesn’t require much tinkering once you’ve set it up, but knowing how to keep it functioning could save you a lot of stress. Here are a few best practices for maintaining your humidor.

### **Tip #1 Get the Setup Right**

Buying the right humidor — and setting it up correctly — is the best way to ensure your cigars stay in ideal smoking condition. A cheap humidor that doesn’t provide an air-tight seal will undermine your best efforts to maintain the (roughly) 65% to 72% required to preserve premium cigars. Similarly, improper humidor setup will put you behind the 8-ball and can, in the worst cases, ruin your cigar collection.

### **Tip #2 Check it Regularly** 

You don’t need to stand over your humidor and check it every five minutes, but you should keep an eye on it and monitor the **[internal humidity](https://www.cigarworld.com/education/achieving-perfect-cigar-humidity/)** at least once every few days. By reviewing your hygrometer regularly, you can identify potential problems with your humidor and potentially avoid damage to your cigars.

### **Tip #3 Keep it in a Cool, Dry Place**

Basements are often ideal for humidors because of their cooler temperatures and higher humidity levels. If you don’t have a basement, just make sure not to store your humidor right by a window or in direct sunlight. And try not to move your humidor around too much, either. Constantly fidgeting with and transferring your humidor around is a recipe for disaster.

### **Tip #4 Re-Season When Necessary**

Every few years, it may become necessary to remove your cigars from a humidor so you can “re-season” it. You may only have to do this if your humidity levels drop more frequently than usual. And remember: there are a couple of different ways to go about seasoning a humidor, but never use anything other than distilled water, and don’t try to season a humidor with cigars inside.

Alternatively, you could also consider investing in a new humidor if your current humidor struggles to maintain humidity levels consistently.

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###  2 AaronH.

(3 years ago)

Thank you for your very informative posts. Humidity control can be tricky. I have had both sides of the tragedies that can occure over dried and possibly even worse. Mildew/mold :{ Ultimatly, Boveda takes the guess work out with their 2-way humidity packs. I have used the pucks that you soak with water and distilled is the way to go for sure!

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