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 Re: Humistat growing mold?
Author: cjwright 
Date:   2012-02-11 04:53

As a cigar aficionado and someone who constantly is watching my hygrometers in my humidors, I'd like to recommend considering getting some drymistat sticks with some propylene glycol. It's what a lot of cigar smokers use because propylene glycol doesn't create mold like distilled water can tend to. One stick will usually cost you about $7 or $8 in a cigar shop, and a big bottle of propylene glycol will cost you about the same, but would last years for the amount you use for one stick.

The sticks have chunks of a thick jelly-like substance (which is actually made of propylene glycol as well) and when you add more propylene glycol, they just soak it up, get bloated, and store moisture for 4-5months on end. When they begin to dry up and get a bit smaller, you just a pour a little bit more in and put them back.

Just one note: we generally think that more moisture = good, but you CAN over-humidify your instrument. Wood is porous, and therefore absorbs and "breaths" moisture in and out, which helps prevent mold, but if you overflood it, it can't "breath out."

Anyways, just my two cents. Off to burn my evening stick!

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