# Cigar hobbyists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigar-hobbyists/918935 "2020-08-24T23:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigar-hobbyists/918935/22 "2020-10-01T17:12:01Z")
You’ll want the cigars to be as naked as possible. If they’ve been left out for years, it will take a long time to rehydrate them, and you need to do it slowly. Go too fast, and the cigars can “explode” and be ruined. As **Greathouse** suggests, start with a 62% boveda. If they’ll fit, a ziplock bag works well. And it’s OK if the boveda touches the cigars - it won’t hurt them. Leave them alone for a month. Then take out the 62% and step up to a 67% boveda - different “strength” bovedas will fight each other. Again, leave it alone for a month. They should be smokable by now. Probably not optimal, but at least they should’t blaze away like something from a cartoon. To be honest, with what bovedas cost, it’s probably not worth trying to rescue one or two cigars. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigar-hobbyists/918935/23 "2020-10-01T17:13:37Z")
How are you storing it? When you say your humidity is always high - it it always 65-72%? That’s where cigars are happy. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigar-hobbyists/918935/24 "2020-10-01T22:16:25Z")
Average for Lima is around 80%. Never below 60% and close to 100% for a couple of months. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigar-hobbyists/918935/25 "2020-10-02T17:27:50Z")
Wow, so your challenge is reducing humidity to prevent mildew. I get the exact opposite challenge at an annual event in the high desert of Nevada, where the humidity tends to be around 15% - you can almost hear cigars crackle as the moisture is sucked out of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigar-hobbyists/918935.md?page=1)