Cigar hobbyists?

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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.

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How are you storing it? When you say your humidity is always high - it it always 65-72%? That’s where cigars are happy.

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Average for Lima is around 80%. Never below 60% and close to 100% for a couple of months.

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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.