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Old 12-25-2007, 07:50 PM   #1
Danforz
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Help!! Possible humidor emergency!

Hello everyone,

I literally stepped in from my trip only 30 minutes ago, to find my bumping the humidity of my humidor up to an astounding 80% RH. This is problematic as I've been gone for the past five days and some mold has reared its ugly head in the humidor and I'm quite worried (I've got white, green and yellow molds). Heres some background:

On Friday, I disconnected the power chord on my Hydra humidifier so I could go inside the humidor and rearrange some stuff without the fan continually buzzing. Well, I guess I forgot the Hydra has an ON/OFF button (I'm used to the CO+). When I turned the thing back on, its reading of the humidity was completely off (by ~10%) and the adjustment knob only allows for an adjustment of +/- 5% or so. I allowed the humidity in the unit to drop to the point where I could re-calliberate it based off my Heartfelt Industries digital hygrometer. Before I left for Mexico, all seemed well and both the Hydra and the hygrometer were reading at around 70%.

Anyways, I arrive back today and as I said, there are spots of mold in between some of the ventilation holes.

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There are also some yellow "spots" which look more like stains then fuzz. These are what really worry me as they seem as if they are ingrained into the wood - and are quite numerous. For now, I'm doing my best to remove this stuff with a lot of cue tips but am still a bit worried. Luckily, my cigars seem OK (way to soft but I can deal with that) but I'm worried about the condition of the wood in my humidor and the hydra itself. Will this fuzz spread? Is the humidor a gonner? Why the hell did the hydra go haywire?

Any help would be GREATLY GREATLY appreciated. Merry Christmas and thank you in advance.


EDIT: Here are photos of those "yellow spots." Upon further investigation, I'm starting to think they are just wood stain. I hope I'm right ???
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