White residue

Scott Edwards

I have a 50 cigar humidor in which I am using the Humi-Care blue stick. The box has 40 or so sticks in it and the temp is 75 constant and 72% humidity constant. For some reason I have a white residue on my sticks, it wipes of rather easy, my concern is what in the heck is it. I was careful to season the box and make sure it was dry before loading it. Cigars were in it for 4 months with no issue, then the white crap appeared. Anyone run up against this? Do I need to trash the sticks and clean the box, I am pretty much at a loss at this point.

StrongStyle

sounds like plume to me, but ill let one of the seasoned smokers handle it.

Diamondog

Highly unlikely its plume if you have multiple brands of cigars with it on them at the same time, it just doesn't work like that....I would be concerned with your temp and humidity levels, need to get them down...you may have the beginnings of a mold problem...

Lakota72

I agree. Is it on all the cigars evenly? If so, 99% chance you have a mold issue. If your temp is that high, maybe think about brining your rh down a bit and you should be ok.

Russ55

I doubt it's plume. Do you have a pic? It could be white mold. You might want to lower that humidity a tad.

jlmarta

I agree with the temp/RH angle. You need to get the temp to 71 or less to avoid beetles and RH to 70 or less. Personally, I prefer RH of 62-65% but that's personal choice.

Scott Edwards

docbp87

Whoa... Unless it was all in the feet of the sticks, they were probably salvageable. Don't be so quick to toss them! I've smoked several cigars before that had a little fuzzy spot that wiped off alright. Unless it stains, it can probably be saved.

CharlieCordus

Scott Edwards

The sticks were pretty bad as was the box itself. Pretty substantial mold growth. I workout of town for long periods of time, my guess is this has been going on for awhile, just never investigated. My tossing of the sticks is because I work as a catastrophe adjuster and I am well versed in mold and proper mitigation. Unless all mold is eradicated it will spread to any new sticks, it's lack of visual presence does mean it isn't there. 8 sticks in my travel humidor will get me through this hard time.

PsychoSJG

PM to you sir

fla-gypsy

If you live in a high temp, high humidity climate where the temp cannot be lowered like I do you will need to reduce the RH. I can rarely get my temp below 75 but keep my humidity at 60--65% and have no issues. Sorry to hear about the loss but I believe they may have been salvagable also.

Heavy

kuzi16

Rhamlin

Damn that sucks dude. I worry about that all the tim since I work out of town for a month at a time. Maybe I should be thankful my wife won't hardly mess with my humi shell moisten my beads when I mention it so my humidity doesn't usually get too high except during those first few days of recharging.

kaspera79

double post

kaspera79

.. sorry to hear about the loss. I would have dusted them off, I hate to throw out cigars. " and Rhamlin, nice to hear your "beads " are being well cared for. ; )