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Am I screwed?

Martin2D

Martin2D

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I got my newbie sampler last week and had left them in the ziploc bag I received them in. Yesterday I received my 65% RH Viper beads so I hydrated the beads to 75% and threw them in my tupperdore. I went to sleep with the humidity at a nice 60-65% and awoke today to humidity of 75%...I quickly burped it and let the humidity drop and thought nothing of it. I then went to check the RH again and saw with horror that one of my cigars had a black soft spot on it. I quickly took it out and started examining others. Some of them have tiny black spots, which aren't soft and am not sure if they were there before I got them. The last cigar I took out to examine has two small patches of green (flat mold, I suppose?).

Please let me know if I can do anything...I put them back into the ziploc bag except for the green and soft spot one.

Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Martin
 
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Just found another with the top type of spot.
 
the green spot is a waterspot, ie. when the tobacco is handled, water contacted and changed it to the nice green... i've found no issues w/ any that i've had w/ that kind of damage, but ymmv. Beetle holes are usually pinhole sized?
 
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This one had wrapper damage when I got it...split at the bottom/flaking...now I discovered this...
 
The green spot does indeed look like a water spot. The soft black patch though, I've never seen anything like it. Are you sure it's not a hole in the wrapper and you're looking onto the binder?

As for the small holes. Sometimes wrappers have small holes. Perfectly circular holes that go through the binder though, are a problem. You can test this by trying to see if a toothpick or pin will go into the cigar through the hole. If it does, then you need to do the tap test. Tap the foot of the cigar onto a piece of white paper. If fine, round or rice grain shaped dust falls out, you've got beetle damage.

Wilkey
 
Ginseng said:
The green spot does indeed look like a water spot. The soft black patch though, I've never seen anything like it. Are you sure it's not a hole in the wrapper and you're looking onto the binder?

As for the small holes. Sometimes wrappers have small holes. Perfectly circular holes that go through the binder though, are a problem. You can test this by trying to see if a toothpick or pin will go into the cigar through the hole. If it does, then you need to do the tap test. Tap the foot of the cigar onto a piece of white paper. If fine, round or rice grain shaped dust falls out, you've got beetle damage.

Wilkey
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I'm thinking the soft spot may be a drop of water or something that fell on it. Hopefully it will dry out. So should I put them back in the tupperdor or should I leave them in ziploc/plain air for now until they dry out a bit?
 
I'm confused with the 65% beads that got hydrated to 75%, then went to 60-60% then to 75%. That don't sound like Viper beads to me.
 
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