Dry Boxing conundrum

[eggtimer]

Hi all, a perhaps silly question (another one some might say) but I usually dry box (overnight only) and have had a bad experience today with my usual cigar (robusto size) needing to be re-lit multiple times until I gave up early in the 3rd third - lots of smoke and seemed too wet in the middle to the end.

Here is what was different this time:

- I used an old Upman box that does not have any cedar lining or sheets in it (I presume it's just a cardboard box?)

- when I checked the humidity in the environment it is very high today and yesterday around 79%.

Question: Do I need something in the box to draw out the excess moisture like dry cedar or such and does all this still work if it is so stinking humid here in Sydney?

Thanks for your patience!

[Tdm_86]

If the environment you’re placing the cigar in is more humid than the cigar, you’re not dry boxing. You could say you’ve been wet boxing it. 
How was the relative humidity of the room you were trying to dry box the cigar in? 
 

 

[El Presidente]

2 hours ago, eggtimer said:

Hi all, a perhaps silly question (another one some might say) but I usually dry box (overnight only) and have had a bad experience today with my usual cigar (robusto size) needing to be re-lit multiple times until I gave up early in the 3rd third - lots of smoke and seemed too wet in the middle to the end.

Here is what was different this time:

- I used an old Upman box that does not have any cedar lining or sheets in it (I presume it's just a cardboard box?)

- when I checked the humidity in the environment it is very high today and yesterday around 79%.

Question: Do I need something in the box to draw out the excess moisture like dry cedar or such and does all this still work if it is so stinking humid here in Sydney?

Thanks for your patience!

You can't dry box at 79%. Stop it. 

If you are only doing it overnight, throw that strategy out the windpw. Clip it and put it in the fridge for 3 hours. Try it.