Relative Humidity Sweet Spot for Cigars?

[El Presidente]

 Relative Humidity Sweet Spot for Cigars? 

Couple of questions popped up over the last week in terms of Relative Humidity/Storage for CC and NC. 

Let's see if we can bang it into one poll for a better visual summary of members thoughts. 

[Li Bai]

I don't have that much experience with NCs but the good stuff is kept in separate boxes in my cabinet around 64%, on the bottom shelf and so far, so good.

I've tried keeping NCs closer to 70% in the past but never really noticed a difference. Again, I never really cared enough about NCs to dig deeper.

But that was before the Nudies came into my life 😍

[Lucas Buck]

I don’t smoke many NC but I keep everything at 65% for long term and 60% max for smoking. I like mine dry. 

[tbelle7]

63% for CC, 68% for NC. Separate towers.

In the beginning, I watched enough YouTube videos (rolls eyes) to make me believe 70/70 was the way for CC. Later moving down to 62-63% changed the experience in a big way. Bluetooth hygrometers and their apps have made RH easy to monitor and control.

[TheFez]

I may be a strange one, but as I mentioned in the other post I prefer to store (in general, not an overall rule) Nicaraguans closer to 67, Dominicans and Hondurans closer to 65, and Cubans closer to 62. I will most of the time take a cigar out of the humidor in the morning to smoke that afternoon, and will (try to) take cubans out a few days in advance. Just my experience where I've found the flavors and performance to work best according to my preference

[JohnS]

I'm also around 62% RH for Habanos cigars and 65% RH (and above) for my New World stock. It may be 1 or 2 percent lower or higher (probably higher) but all I know is that the Boveda packs I have been working for many, many years and are still going strong.

[Ford2112]

I find cigars smoke better where I live at a lower RH so I tend to like them at 65 or below. I store everything the same. I could never get them much lower than 63% in my storage, so 65 works for me and I don't overthink things.

[BrightonCorgi]

What the Aristocrat says is it what is. I don't bother dry boxing the like. If it's too hydroscopic, I can wait years if need be, to revisit. 

[BG318]

My CC's and NC's live together. I didn't think it would make any difference, but people seem to feel differently. I'm pretty steady at 66-67 though. I have an NC every 6-7 weeks, and it's only about 6% of my stash. For me I think the more important question is what rh should Nudies be stored at?. They are 90% of my 6% NC's. They have been burning and smoking great at the 66-67 range. 

[Boxer31]

When I first got my tower - was constantly trying to tune. Did not notice a big difference between CC and NC, so I try for 65 and if it inches up or down a bit, no worries. 

[NYGuido]

5 hours ago, TheFez said:

I may be a strange one, but as I mentioned in the other post I prefer to store (in general, not an overall rule) Nicaraguans closer to 67, Dominicans and Hondurans closer to 65, and Cubans closer to 62. I will most of the time take a cigar out of the humidor in the morning to smoke that afternoon, and will (try to) take cubans out a few days in advance. Just my experience where I've found the flavors and performance to work best according to my preference

This is my exact setup. Tower has Cubans at 61-62, a cooler that stores non Cubans at 63, a desktop for my ready to smoke Nicaraguan at 67, and a desktop for my Davidoffs at 64.

[TheFez]

2 hours ago, NYGuido said:

This is my exact setup. Tower has Cubans at 61-62, a cooler that stores non Cubans at 63, a desktop for my ready to smoke Nicaraguan at 67, and a desktop for my Davidoffs at 64.

I could say wow at least I'm not crazy, or I could say wow another person just like me😅🫶🏾

[LizardGizmo]

Cubans and Honduran puros at 62rh for me. Non-Cubans at 65rh, generally. Important to also note that my temperature is room temp - around 68°F/20°C.

I like my stuff just a bit drier than the guys I am often smoking with.

[NYGuido]

1 hour ago, LizardGizmo said:

Cubans and Honduran puros at 62rh for me. Non-Cubans at 65rh, generally. Important to also note that my temperature is room temp - around 68°F/20°C.

I like my stuff just a bit drier than the guys I am often smoking with.

I’ve followed your lead on the Hondurans with fantastic results and treat my Fab5/Bond Roberts cigars like they’re Cuban. And now that my whole storage got sorted, I’m running everything at 70F and it makes a lot of difference.