mad cigar tunneling!

cryptoking13

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I had very bad tunneling on my cigars this year. I noticed Connecticut broadleaf wrappers were the worst. I tried everything: lowering/ increasing humidity, resting for weeks/months, puffing slow/fast but nothing worked. Happened to boxes of liga privadas, the tabernacle, cao session among others with a similar wrapper which would just not combust. A ton of $ wasted on these boxes since I thought it was my fault so I kept lighting them up instead of returning. I am suspecting bad crops throughout the industry.
 

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Did you drybox these before you smoked them? I honestly doubt it's bad crops throughout the industry, otherwise it would be happening all over the country.

I'm going to guess user error: Tunneling is the issue we see when the filler tobacco burns faster than the wrapper tobacco, causing a tunnel to form on the inside of the cigar. Tunneling usually occurs because of overly-slow smoking. When a smoker goes a long period of time without puffing on their smoke, the cherry cools, leaving only the core hot.

Cigar tunneling
 
I had very bad tunneling on my cigars this year. I noticed Connecticut broadleaf wrappers were the worst. I tried everything: lowering/ increasing humidity, resting for weeks/months, puffing slow/fast but nothing worked. Happened to boxes of liga privadas, the tabernacle, cao session among others with a similar wrapper which would just not combust. A ton of $ wasted on these boxes since I thought it was my fault so I kept lighting them up instead of returning. I am suspecting bad crops throughout the industry.

I feel like someone else posted something similar not too long ago... maybe poke around the search feature using "tunneling". Don't remember if a cause was discovered.
 
Nm.. it was you who posted the same issue before. Maybe stick to that same thread you started:

 
If this is happening with all of your cigars, it's either a storage issue, or a smoking technique issue. If it were a crop issue, you'd be hearing about it non-stop from all angles of the industry.
 
I just posted a cigar that had a tunnel... first one I have had in a super long time.... In this case it was a construction anomaly.

But like others have said, if is a consistent problem across brands and purchase locations, I think it warrants a look at how they are stored maybe?

Best of luck figuring this out!
 
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