Ceder Sleeves, Tubes, and Coffin Warning.....

phobicsquirrel

MonteWhite

Wow, thanks for sharing your experiences with us. I'm a bit paranoid now. I'm going to have to check my sleeved and coffined cigars right now!

kaspera79

WTF... Now I have something else to worry about. Thanks Pheebs. Please, nobody better say Beetles. ooops !

scarlin

Another reason to be paranoid...

howtobass

It's reasons like this that I am glad I joined this forum. Information! Thanks!

phobicsquirrel

no, no mention of beetles here.

JSaint

well in the right temperature lol jkjk

KCW

You just saved one of my Anejos.... Thank you very much..... I had no idea.

beatnic

Naked ladies, gentlemen. Tubes? No way. Cello and sleeve? Not me.

jr_p951

Oh man!! I can picture everyone running to check thier stash!!...I'm running too!!

dennisking

Pulled a La Aurora Preferido out of the tube at the B&M and it had mold. They all did. Weird how this happens. What about aging with the tube screw end off? Does this help?

bigharpoon

I just checked my tubed preferidos and they are doing fine, maybe because I open them up now and then and smell them thus exchanging the air inside?

phobicsquirrel

dennisking:

Pulled a La Aurora Preferido out of the tube at the B&M and it had mold. They all did. Weird how this happens. What about aging with the tube screw end off? Does this help?

I've heard that helps. However I am going to just stay clear of tubes from now on. I do have a few don carlos god of fires in my dome humi and I check them all the time and they are fine. The other god of fires I have are in my cabinet and I never really check all of them. I have 4 gurkha black dragon tubes and they have never had a problem, the same as with my box of gurkha beautys (they are all tubed).

phobicsquirrel

KCW:

You just saved one of my Anejos.... Thank you very much..... I had no idea.

sweet! that was my hope!

xmacro

The Sniper

The Sniper

docbp87

A lot of people tend to store their cigars at a much higher relative humidity than they should. The old "standard" of 70/70 is much too high...

Rhamlin

Got no coffins and only one tube glad its glass.Now I'm worried guess I'll pull all the cedar wraps off my sticks when I get home now.

KCW

docbp87:

A lot of people tend to store their cigars at a much higher relative humidity than they should. The old "standard" of 70/70 is much too high...

Definitley guilty of this. I'm going to try to maintain 65rh.

skweekz

After reading this I went to check stuff I had in tubes and coffins. Luckily I had no issues. While I was at it I thought what they heck, I'll just look at everything. Glad I did. I found my box of Trinidad mini-belicoso with half of the sticks having mold. It was even in the foot of each of them. So there's 10 sticks in the trash. I took the entire box out as to not contaminate everything else. Thankful that I checked

jj20030

luclkily i dont have but only a couple coffins, question is it being in the coffin with a cedar sleeve or just being inside with no sleeve too? i have 2 in coffins but no cedar sleeves, also i dont have but a few in cello with cedar sleeves so i took off all my cedar sleeves and no problem except one anejo which is a #46 , it had spots under the sleeve but seem to be whitish and all came off after i rubed it looks ok, ill just smoke this today,lol , only had 2 in tubes one from rcy and they both looked fine, no more tubes and sleeves for me i guess, thanks for the heads up

KCW

jj20030:

except one anejo which is a #46 , it had spots under the sleeve but seem to be whitish and all came off after i rubed it looks ok

Exactly what I did.

Rhamlin

skweekz:

After reading this I went to check stuff I had in tubes and coffins. Luckily I had no issues. While I was at it I thought what they heck, I'll just look at everything. Glad I did. I found my box of Trinidad mini-belicoso with half of the sticks having mold. It was even in the foot of each of them. So there's 10 sticks in the trash. I took the entire box out as to not contaminate everything else. Thankful that I checked

Dang that sucks.

blurr

This brings me to a point I raised awhile ago, & nobody agreed with me. In my experiences I have had more mold issues with Fuente cigars than any other brand. Maybe I tend to have more of those stocked, and its only been 2 small outbreaks but they were both fuentes with cedar sleeves. I don't know if its Dominican tobacco or if Fuentes just are at a higher humidity when shipped from the factory, but I have bad luck with AF's. Good thread & good advice, if you have cedar sleeved smokes get those ladies naked! My opinion only.

skweekz

Is there any way to get rid of mold on a cigar, aside from smoking it? I know you can wipe it off the wrapper, but I've got half a box with mold growing in the foot. I might cut one apart and see how deep it goes.. Maybe kuzi or someone has an idea of getting rid of the mold?

phobicsquirrel

skweekz:

Is there any way to get rid of mold on a cigar, aside from smoking it? I know you can wipe it off the wrapper, but I've got half a box with mold growing in the foot. I might cut one apart and see how deep it goes.. Maybe kuzi or someone has an idea of getting rid of the mold?

if it's on the foot you may be able to cut the foot. However it depends on how much is there. Some people say if it's on the foot your better off tossing them, but others say if it's not that bad then cut it back.

robbyras

This prompted me, like others, to check my stash... as far as coffins, I only have a Camacho Liberty 08 and a CAO Odyssey and they are both fine... I also have about 10 Anejos over various sizes, so I gave them a look and they were all ok, thankfully... I ended up taking the ceder off and just tossing it... not gonna take a chance, I love those sticks too much

ENFIDL

I only have 1 cigar, PDR, in a sealed tube that alienmisprint sent me and it looks like it's doing fine. I may take it out though. I haven't purchased any coffins but this is some really good info to have in the event I do.

Gray4lines

james40