Aging puerh: what is your setup?
A/C takes moisture out of the air. Check your heat pump and you will see water coming from the drain line. That is humidity removed from your air.
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Dehumidifiers are basically air conditioning units that exhaust their excess heat in the same room so there is no net cooling effect, but water vapor condenses and accumulates in a tank, so air in the room sees its humidity level drop.
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If you are using humidity control devices (Boveda packs etc.), you should be fine upstairs as well.
That's really it, what Faj mentioned, that relative humidity changes a lot in relation to the air being able to hold a lot more moisture when it's warmer.
Next one would wonder if bacteria and fungus growth, responsible for pu'er fermentation, wouldn't somehow relate to a more absolute humidity proportion, or if that would instead tie to both humidity level and temperature. Information about what is most risky and most promising comes out bit by bit; it's not the kind of thing where you read a research paper and it fills in half the details.
I wrote about how relative humidity works before, related to that subject being familiar from data center cooling and humidity control concerns, from my day job. It doesn't help that much with actual storage control, but it's interesting to me:
http://teaintheancientworld.blogspot.co ... ative.html
Next one would wonder if bacteria and fungus growth, responsible for pu'er fermentation, wouldn't somehow relate to a more absolute humidity proportion, or if that would instead tie to both humidity level and temperature. Information about what is most risky and most promising comes out bit by bit; it's not the kind of thing where you read a research paper and it fills in half the details.
I wrote about how relative humidity works before, related to that subject being familiar from data center cooling and humidity control concerns, from my day job. It doesn't help that much with actual storage control, but it's interesting to me:
http://teaintheancientworld.blogspot.co ... ative.html
What's the temperature in your basement? upstairs? From what I've read, I would go with a little hotter (upstairs) than a little colder (basement).
I’ve watched many of the TeaDB videos; in this one James was pretty decisive about aging in the west. It was very informative.
Listening to James talk about 10+ years aging I realize that I’m not aging tea (for improvement). I have around 15 cakes, about half of these Sheng and I’m not intending to age them. I’m planning to drink all of these before buying more...though I may add a cake here and there after 2-3 years of working through what I own already. So I shouldn’t say I’m aging these, simply storing them for short term consumption.
Listening to James talk about 10+ years aging I realize that I’m not aging tea (for improvement). I have around 15 cakes, about half of these Sheng and I’m not intending to age them. I’m planning to drink all of these before buying more...though I may add a cake here and there after 2-3 years of working through what I own already. So I shouldn’t say I’m aging these, simply storing them for short term consumption.
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My puerh is stored in one of those grow tents that's 4' x 1.25' x 1.25' or approximately 52 gallons. I keep a container of water in there, and the RH hovers around 70 and the temperature stays pretty solid at 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm thinking of ways to increasing the heat, using a heating pad for reptile tanks and getting ceramic tiles to trip in the heat a little bit. What other options do I have to increase the temperature slightly?
Thought I would give a brief update as I had moved the pumidor a couple months ago. I should note first that I added one boveda pack. RH now around 65-66, up from lower 60's, and when I open the door to take tea out, put it back in within a 1/2 hour it's not dropping as quick as when I did this when in the basement...so I'm overall happier with this set up.
Once the tea stabilizes it the humidity should hold steady. But until it absorbs the moisture it can be thirsty for that humidity.Noonie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:58 pmThought I would give a brief update as I had moved the pumidor a couple months ago. I should note first that I added one boveda pack. RH now around 65-66, up from lower 60's, and when I open the door to take tea out, put it back in within a 1/2 hour it's not dropping as quick as when I did this when in the basement...so I'm overall happier with this set up.
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@OCTO turn off the Aircon for a few days muahahahahaha