tube& wrapped cigars

oran

When I put a unopened box of metal tubed smokes or singles in a glass tube unopened do they require any special treatment in a large humidor? Or will they keep as well as all the others that are in cellophane wrapper? Thanks for any advice Big D

Rain

Welcome to the forums..see you're a longtime member, first time poster! Do some searching, some people have had mold problems with metal and glass tubos. If you at least unscrew the cap, that will help...but I'd advise taking them out and storing the tubos nearby. If you put a sealed box/tubo in and never look at it, how do you know it's not moldy or beetle infested? Also, cellophane is to some degree porous...metal and glass probably not as much.

rsherman24

I recently found a few spots of mold on a metal tubed cigar so now I take them all out for storage.

The3Stogies

Mold is one of my greatest fears so I take no chances and open everything now. I do still have a few Limitada's in their glass tubes but I can see them, makes me feel a little better, but the rest of the box are naked and happy. When I had some cigars in metal tubes I was opening them up so much I was afraid to damage the wrappers from checking them so off they came. But if one does mold it will be kinda quarantined from the rest in it's tube. I say open them up and let them mingle, you will sleep better too.

onestrangeone

I only have one of the glass tubes, it's corked and sealed so I've left it alone. About 98% of the metal tubes I simply removed, the few that I let sleep in the tubes have had the cedar removed. I also remove the cedar sleeve from any cello'ed sticks that are resting.

youngryan216

I hate to remove a cedar sleeve. Takes away some of the cigar's character imo.

catfishbluezz

I pull the tube and cedar sleeve off every cigar period. They are mold magnets. Tubes are not recommended for aging via HSA. Granted, people use the tubo to slow down aging, but I'd rather not risk a long term investment with mold. Just because your humi is 65, doesn't mean that cap and sleeve aren't holding higher rh.

kaspera79

I'm with catfish on this one. I always strip the cedar sleeves off any cigar I receive that has one. I've gone to smoke more than a few cedar sleeved cigars only to find that they were covered in mold. In fact, with one exception, the only cigars I have ever lost to mold were cedar sleeved ones.

catfishbluezz

Yup^^^^ I had some older partagas tubos that got it. That humi has KL and 62rh boveda, never gets into mold territory. The reality is, we cannot control the inside of a tube, and the cedar wrap if over humidified basically is a sheet of mold spores waiting to happen. Look at all the Camacho Libertys that are mold factories. They're wrapped in paper in cedar coffins...

kuzi16

onestrangeone

The3Stogies

I always remove the cedar too myself because it seemed kind of redundant to have my naked cigars in a cedar lined humi with cedar still on them. Not that I know what I'm doing but mold really scares me, and what has been posted here seem's to be the thing to do.

0patience

Bob Luken

Rhamlin

catfishbluezz:

I pull the tube and cedar sleeve off every cigar period. They are mold magnets. Tubes are not recommended for aging via HSA. Granted, people use the tubo to slow down aging, but I'd rather not risk a long term investment with mold. Just because your humi is 65, doesn't mean that cap and sleeve aren't holding higher rh.

I always remove them from sleeves and tubes. We had a case here a couple years ago where one fella found mold under a sleeve which prompted most everybody to check theirs and turned out quite a few found mold.

ejgorman

I'm a fvckin daredevil and I'm prolly asking for trouble, but I never freeze cigars, never remove cedar, never take a cigar out of a glass tubo and only loosen the caps on metal tubos. I have never had a problem, but I've only been at this a little over a year. There's a first time for everything and the first time I see mold I guarantee my tactics will change.