Anything special i should know for maintaining a boxwood flute through a Florida summer? Does boxwood do okay in humidity?
My boxwood flutes all prefer humidity. I keep them humidified in the winter, I can leave them out in the (DC) summer. What you don’t want to do is shock it – that is, give it extremes in humidity.
Yeah, what you want to avoid is not playing it for a week, then playing in a session for six hours, then taking it to Tucson. 
Assuming the wood was seasoned properly, the normal fluxes of the seasons shouldn’t give you too much trouble. You may experience your tenons swelling, so you’ll need to adjust the lapping accordingly (i.e. sanding corks or removing a layer of thread).
Thanks. It’s about 3 years old IIRC and has been played in pretty well during that time, and i’m playing it every day.
Sho nuff am likin me some boxwood… just want to make sure i’m treatin it right. 
Should be fine, just don’t humidify it. (That’s right, I said do not.) Since you’re playing it every day, and you’ll be in Florida, don’t humidify the flute while you’re there, even if you live in air conditioned comfort. Why? It’s easy to over humidify Boxwood in Florida, which can lead to a bloom of the dreaded “Blue Streak” mold that lives in much boxwood.
I had a very nice Fred Rose Boxwood whistle when I lived in Florida, I kept it humidified, because I lived in a very air conditioned apartment (I kept it particularly cool in order to keep my dog comfortable, since German Shepherds are a double coated breed), however regular playing would have been enough to keep it properly humidified, so I ended up over humidifying and the fungal spores that cause blue streak bloomed like crazy.
Simply play your flute, swab it out, put it back in the case/roll or whatever, and you’re good to go.
Loren
thanks, Loren.
No prob, you’ve helped me out with mando related advice o’plenty, happy to repay the favor - wouldn’t want your boxwood pal turning ugly on ya. 
Besides, if you play daily and humidify in FL, you probably will start to develop fit problems at the uppermost socket/tenon joint.
Loren
i’m not terribly fond of bleu cheese, so i think i’d like bleu flute even less…
Like this.
By weird quirk I have not one, but two boxwood flutes. When I wrote Olwell’s shop about tenon maintenance on the one, Kara Lochridge wrote me back and said in their experience boxwood is happiest between 50 and 55% humidity.
So there’s a number for ya, FWIW…
OMG! That makes me feel much better about me wee quizzical Murray … thanks!
Yes, if it was seasoned and made here in the U.S., at around that humidity…
English or Irish made Boxwood flutes are likely to be fairly curvy or ovalled at that humidity, if you see what I mean.
Loren
Crap! the link is down…
I wanna see, I wanna see!!! 
It was a link to the Daton C. Miller collection.
Search for “Boxwood Fife” and it is item DCM 0994: Clementi & Co. / Fife in A-flat (B-flat).
If you use the gallery view after searching, you will see more than one slightly warped fife.
Thanks I.D.
Hooooo Boy… that IS ugly!!!
I have a Bleazy Boxwood (great flute), and am now curious about this “blue streak mold”.
Any pictures of that floating around???
LEE
Not if ya think of 'em as rhythm bones that also moonlight! 