Ahh Damm it. Hate to see that. I have never had to throw away a cigar with mold and would hate to, But definitely get it out of your humidor and away from the others.
We move a whole shttload of sticks around this forum guys. And is highly likely that mold also gets transported. It would be wise to inspect your cigars closely when you get them in the mail.
I almost always unwrap everything, but, there are exceptions. So, after reading the above, I checked my only tubed cigar, a Monte Cristo Habana, from Cuba, gift from a friend in the music industry who travels. I've been reluctant to smoke it, been in there for over a year now, fortunately no mold, but I'm thinking, once I'm over this stupid cold, it's going up in smoke. Cool to have a "real Cuban" in the humidor, but, life's too short to leave good cigars to posterity!
So what's up with all the mold on AF cedar wrapped/coffined cigars? Doesn't seem like anyone is having nearly the same problem with other brand's cedar or coffined cigars. I wonder if it's the Dominican Republic's weather or something they do during storage which creates the mold there and then it blooms later in everyone's humi. Anyone have a theory?
Bump for the noobs... I went digging for an anejo...and found a King B with mold under the cedar sleeve. Bum part is I just buoght this a couple weeks ago and I always check. Needless to say, I pulled all sleeves and found a Party short tubo with mold too. So I guess I jsut joined hte pull the cedar/coffin/tubo immediately club lol...and will be smoking the first CC gifted to me, thanks Laker, and a King B tonight!
Where I am, I cannot leave shrink wrap on the boxes or cigars in tubos or mold seems to occur quite often. If they are in cello, with cedar wrap, I have not run into any problems with those. I do not have any coffins to be concerned about. LOL!
I buy a lot of tube cigars. (As anyone that trades with me may find out.) Where they are in my cabinet the rh never ever spikes higher than 67. (Check all 3 hygrometers twice daily. And temp is nvr over 67-68. Not once had problems with mold. I open tubes daily remove cigars for bout 10 seconds put em back seal em back. This may seem like work but smoking 2 gars a day I'm in my humidors twice daily anyways. No biggie to me.
I buy a lot of tube cigars. (As anyone that trades with me may find out.) Where they are in my cabinet the rh never ever spikes higher than 67. (Check all 3 hygrometers twice daily. And temp is nvr over 67-68. Not once had problems with mold. I open tubes daily remove cigars for bout 10 seconds put em back seal em back. This may seem like work but smoking 2 gars a day I'm in my humidors twice daily anyways. No biggie to me.
My cooler is solid at 65-66 all the time, never fluctuates with beads. My CC humi is at 68-69 with boveda. It happened in both. I store my cigars and organie them by vendor in boxes stacked in my cooler so going through them daily is not an option. Personally, I'd rather not worry about it.
Bump for the noobs... I went digging for an anejo...and found a King B with mold under the cedar sleeve. Bum part is I just buoght this a couple weeks ago and I always check. Needless to say, I pulled all sleeves and found a Party short tubo with mold too. So I guess I jsut joined hte pull the cedar/coffin/tubo immediately club lol...and will be smoking the first CC gifted to me, thanks Laker, and a King B tonight!
Found it to on the king b you sent me too....thanks for the heads up. I checked all tubos/cedar cigars in my humis and luckily this was the only 1 with a problem. No more cedar or tubos for me though, and the king b is now in "isolation" in my small travel humi by itself and will be getting smoked very soon.
To add an anecdote - I used to be a fan of taking cello off of all my cigars; well, the top drawer in my humi caught mold and I didn't catch it for quite awhile. By the time I found out, there was a BLANKET of mold in that drawer. After cleaning it out, I discovered the only cigars that didn't have any mold . . . were the ones in cello, even though they were surrounded by molded over cigars (and my moldy cigars, I mean they were completely covered in it; not just a few spots - COMPLETELY FUCKING COVERED). After that, I'm now an advocate of leaving the cello on.
To add an anecdote - I used to be a fan of taking cello off of all my cigars; well, the top drawer in my humi caught mold and I didn't catch it for quite awhile. By the time I found out, there was a BLANKET of mold in that drawer. After cleaning it out, I discovered the only cigars that didn't have any mold . . . were the ones in cello, even though they were surrounded by molded over cigars (and my moldy cigars, I mean they were completely covered in it; not just a few spots - COMPLETELY FUCKING COVERED). After that, I'm now an advocate of leaving the cello on.
This is true, unfortunately I also ran into this sometime ago. I didn't get mold to the same degree, but the cello covered sticks were protected. Fortunately most of mine were in cello at the time. Also, to add an additional comment. I got RYJ in a Tubo with cedar sleeve with mold on it when I received it from ccom. So I won't store mine in tubos with cedar sleeves either.
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