What does it mean when the wrapper split open?

JY001

Bad construction. Humidity issue?

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laker1963

JY001:
Bad construction. Humidity issue?

Yes. Humidity most likely. Sometimes a vien or flaw in the wrapper, but mostly humidity. What RH is your Humi?

JY001

RH is 69, temp is 73. I had a cigar from the same box a few days ago and all was well.

Russ55

How hot and/or humid was it outside?

laker1963

Russ55:
How hot and/or humid was it outside?

Yup, that is the next question...

JY001

It's hot and humid, more so than when I had the other one. I'll see how the next one goes. Thanks!

Russ55

Puff really soft and slow at first, moreso than normal, and maybe leave the stick out for a bit before you smoke it. Not too long. 20 minutes or so. That's what I do when it's super hot outside, and it's seemed to help. I'm no expert though, your mileage may vary.

xmacro

JY001:
It's hot and humid, more so than when I had the other one. I'll see how the next one goes. Thanks!

Down here in Florida, that's my problem as well; my cigars are at 65%/73F in the humi, but when I step outside into 85% humidity and 85F heat, the wrapper sometimes cracks.

laker1963

xmacro:
JY001:
It's hot and humid, more so than when I had the other one. I'll see how the next one goes. Thanks!
Down here in Florida, that's my problem as well; my cigars are at 65%/73F in the humi, but when I step outside into 85% humidity and 85F heat, the wrapper sometimes cracks.

Have you found leaving the stick out in the environment for a half hour or so helps? I live on an island and the Humidity os always the issue. Leaving it out of the humi for a half hour before I light it seems to help. It seems the wrapper can absorb a little of the excess humidity without the RH of the filler getting too high. So it burns like it should, but the wrapper is a little more pliable, so it doesn't split, at least not as often.

kaipocruz1

Question for the guys that live in areas with too much humidity...what products seem to work best to keep your rh below 70%? I live in hawaii and sometimes my small humidor will crank itself to 75 to 78%. I usually don't have this problem with my coolidor or my 300 count humi but I think the amount of space plays a factor in keeping those properly humidified.

laker1963

kaipocruz1:
Question for the guys that live in areas with too much humidity...what products seem to work best to keep your rh below 70%? I live in hawaii and sometimes my small humidor will crank itself to 75 to 78%. I usually don't have this problem with my coolidor or my 300 count humi but I think the amount of space plays a factor in keeping those properly humidified.

BEADS. I use two pounds in my coolerdor and it keeps pretty stable between 63 - 67%

MrMoke

I am on the gulf coast, I keep my humi at 70 - 72%RH, temp will be whatever I have the thermostat at, won't get much lower than 78 degrees, my wife balks when i turn it down that it's too cold!

Never had aproblem with smoking other than bad condtruction, plugged sticks occassionally, no signs of beetles in 7 years of smoking.

Don't have any problems with sticks splitting when I step outside where it's gonna be hot and humid, but if it's too hot / humid, am not gonna be sitting out there smoking anyhow.

I did have one issue with a new stick splitting IN my humi, it was very 'bleached' looking for a maduro when I got it, after a few weeks in the humi I noticed it had split (might have done before then but I did'nt notice), it had obviously dried out at the point of purchase and when the filler expanded it split the wrapper

I called the vendor (mention no names but it was'nt ccom) and got a credit for it.

kuzi16

ive got nothing else to add here. all of you have it covered.

xmacro

laker1963:
xmacro:
JY001:
It's hot and humid, more so than when I had the other one. I'll see how the next one goes. Thanks!
Down here in Florida, that's my problem as well; my cigars are at 65%/73F in the humi, but when I step outside into 85% humidity and 85F heat, the wrapper sometimes cracks.
Have you found leaving the stick out in the environment for a half hour or so helps? I live on an island and the Humidity os always the issue. Leaving it out of the humi for a half hour before I light it seems to help. It seems the wrapper can absorb a little of the excess humidity without the RH of the filler getting too high. So it burns like it should, but the wrapper is a little more pliable, so it doesn't split, at least not as often.

Never heard of doing that. I'll try it next time, Thanks!

Lasabar

kuzi16:
ive got nothing else to add here. all of you have it covered.

Like Baloney on a Stripper's booty

bacon.jay

I've found that if it's really humid out and the cigar splits, then leaving it out in the open for a half hour-hour does indeed help and prevent it from splitting, HOWEVER:

If the humidity is much more than 85% outside, you have to be careful doing that or it could split just from sitting out in the open air. If that's the case, I leave the cigar outside the humi for a good two hours before I want to smoke it, but I LEAVE IT IN THE CELLO. This helps me better control the humidity normalization.