so i was cleaning out my humidors yesterday and i noticed small black mold looking spots on the tube and the beads. There was about 10 spots all around. so i took the beads out and attempted to clean the tube and pick out the beads that had mold on them. any ideas to prevent this?
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Mold on humidity beads?!?!?
- Thread starter MrSoprano
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so i was cleaning out my humidors yesterday and i noticed small black mold looking spots on the tube and the beads. There was about 10 spots all around. so i took the beads out and attempted to clean the tube and pick out the beads that had mold on them. any ideas to prevent this?
Make sure your temperature is below 80 and your beads are not over moisturized. If you're talking Heartfelt beads look at the website, you don't need much water to keep them going good.
Make sure your temperature is below 80 and your beads are not over moisturized. If you're talking Heartfelt beads look at the website, you don't need much water to keep them going good.
What he said. Also, make sure when you're hydrating the beads (or "setting" them as Shilala calls it), you use distilled water rather than tap water. The minerals and other mysterious floaties in tap water make everything in your humi more susceptible to mold.
I haven't wet the beads in my 120 quart coolers in a couple months or so. We have low humidity here but, once the cigars & boxes "get up to speed", I can just set a container with about one ounce of distilled water in the coolers and the humidity stays at 65-66%. I'm using 1/2 lb of beads in each cooler and am in one cooler twice per day.
WyoBob
WyoBob