Reddit reviews Boveda for Cigars | 84% RH 2-Way Humidity Control for Humidor Seasoning | Size 60 for Use with Every 25 Cigars a Humidor Can Hold | Properly Seasons a Wood Humidor in 14 Days | 1-Count

Get 84% Boveda seasoning packs, leave them in there for 2 weeks, problem solved.

My advice (and you'll probably hear this from a lot of people): toss out that foam/sponge once your humidor is seasoned and only used boveda packs.

If you're a true purist (I am not), you can get a boveda seasoning kit here (you may need additional 84%RH packs depending on the size of your humidor), but the most common (quick and easy) method is to gently wipe the whole interior (every surface) with distilled water (make sure there is no pooling), and then leave the moist sponge in there (on a dish) for 24 hours (or until your humidity reads 5-10% higher than where you want it to stay (so probably around 75%RH). In order to test this, btw, you will need to make sure your hygrometer is providing an accurate reading (a digital hygrometer is best, but if you only have an analog hygrometer, test and calibrate it using the salt test). After that, remove the wet foam and insert 1 60g boveda pack for every 20-30 cigars your humidor has the capacity to hold (so if it can hold 60 cigars, you can probably use 2 or 3 packs, if it holds 100 you can use 4 or 5, and so on).

Play around with it until you get it stabilized--it will require some experimentation (adding extra or different RH boveda packs, moving them around, testing the seals, etc.).

Remember also that once you start adding cigars, the humidity of those cigars (or lack thereof) will have an effect on the overall humidity in your humidor. Every time you add or remove things from your humidor the RH is likely to shift to some degree and may take a little while to re-stabilize--don't panic, it's no big deal and will become less of an issue once the humidor is mostly full of fully-rested (perfectly humidified) cigars. In the meantime, if you can maintain ~63-69%RH (or more like ~60-66% if you're storing Cubans) in your humidor, your cigars should do just fine.

[Ultimately you will have to find the RH you prefer for your cigars. The above are just suggestions based on my personal experience.]

Edit: the process for re-seasoning is the same as the process for seasoning. If the humidor is dried out it needs to be seasoned, and the fact that it was seasoned at some point in the past holds no bearing.

Oh good! Then yeah , just season w/ Bovedas. 1 per 25 cigar capacity + 1

> Short version - get distilled water, wipe down all of the interior wood surfaces of the humidor with a towel moistened with distilled water (without soaking them, you don't want them to crack). Put a shot glass of distilled water inside the humidor and let it sit for 24-48 hours bring the humidity way up. For a 50-count humidor, get 2 Boveda Seasoning Packs, throw them in your humidor and wait 14 days. Remove the shot glass Boveda Seasoning Packs, add your humidification element (boveda or beads preferably), (digital) hygrometer (calibrated (by you)), and sticks to the humidor. and let it rest for 24-48 hours. Verify that the RH is right (60-70% depending on your preferences) and then add cigars. DONE!

Made some correction the previous post. Wiping down the wood in a humidor can warp and crack the wood so it's not recommended.

Bovedas are a two way humidty control packet. They sell one at a higher percentage for seasoning humidors.

Boveda 84% RH for Humidor Seasoning, Large 60 gram https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FWPQB0Q/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_QQmRzbJY56H7H

Once your humidor is about 5 percent higher than your goal and not flucutating, swap it for a lower RH boveda (62, 65, or 69)