Another question is do you have experience with boveda packs?
Do they just go in the jar(s)?
I've read they work well in humidors, I think that's why I jumped ahead to the humidor question, but don't have one and not sure if it helps.
Yes I have used them, both to maintain moisture and add moisture back. I've used them both on tobacco and cannabis. Mostly in mason jars, but I also put them in a Pelican Case for larger amounts.
Humidors have a breath-ability factor since they are usually made of wood, and before the packets existed you would want that to prevent mold. As long as whatever you put in a jar with a boveda pack has been properly dried, it won't mold.
Pretty useful tools, more advanced then putting a slice of bread in a bag of hardened brown sugar to soften the sugar up, but the same principle.
If you are serious about your tobacco, I'd say invest in a humidor. Then you could figure out which works best. I usually never pass up an opportunity to add a tool to my collection - they usually come in useful for other things, like the vacuum sealer you mentioned. Mine has a jar attachment so I can vacuum seal mason jars. I have used that to preserve dried mushrooms - put a desiccant pack in the jar with the dried mushrooms and then vacuum seal it. Works super great.
Remarkably, I've used my food saver jar attachment for the exact same purpose, mushrooms and all.
The pelican case isn't a bad idea at all, it can be repurposed if I ever decide to do things differently. At the moment there's about 8qt jars full of bulk, not counting the tins which are in a vac canister, will have to check around, see if anyone's flogging one cheap.
A friend of mine is into cigars & bought an old Lane cedar chest which he swears by for use as a humidor, which is another way to go, the chest could be re-used after it's initial purpose, but man those suckers are big.
I think you may be right though, possibly the best answer may be split the difference, get a mid-term solution like a pelican case and longer term invest in a humidor, either bought or built.
Thanks for the input! So much to learn.
When I bought my first house I included an offer for everything in it (an elderly woman that owned it had passed away, her son owned it now and was living overseas) - and he accepted. So I "inherited" her Lane cedar chest. Those are great for storing things! I haven't kept anything consumable in it, but it would certainly do the job. Even when I was smoking a bunch, it would still take me years maybe even decades to smoke all of what that chest could hold!
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