Hello

[Jithell]

Hello, my name is jamie i'm from N.Wales. Been visiting the forum for a while but only just decided to join. One quick question to all you experienced cigar buyers, I bought some cigars from a decent site on the internet and they arrived today. I noticed one of them has a couple of green patches on it. I've never seen this on a cigar before, i e-mailed the company and they say it is natural discolouration. What do guys think? I'm not gonna put it in my humidor yet just incase it's something nasty, better to lose one cigar than all of them!:(

[daverave999]

Welcome Jamie! I'm afraid I'm not experienced enough to help with your 'green patch' question, though I'm sure someone will be along soon enough who is. :smile:

Any chance you could post a picture or two to show us?

[Stogiedog]

Jithell

Welcome to the forum. Again I am not sure what your green spots are on your cigars but just found a link that might help. Once again welcome.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Cigars-2143/green-spots-cigars-1.htm

Stogiedog

[Olls]

Welcome to the Forum!

Where abouts in North Wales are you? I've been in Wrexham for the last year or so although I'm originally a Somerset-man.

[Jithell]

Thanks for the replys guys, will try to put some pics up but only got a camera on my phone so not sure what the quality will be like. Olls, i live close to queensferry so not too far from you.

[Robusto]

Welcome, Jithell.
Enjoy the forum. :smoke:

[emeraldisle]

Evening Jamie,

Gabriel here just adding my welcome to all the other welcomes already echoed. The problem you mention I have had a similar experience of in the past. However my retailer told me that the discolouration was not going to affect the smoking quality of the cigar in any shape form or fashion.

Obviously the evidence if included in picture form may disprove the above theory. What cigars did you get delivered as a matter of interest?

Regards

[TJCoro]

:nono: Ahem, pardon me Robusto, but I thought this was a Cigar Forum.

Did I login to the wrong site again??? :doh:

[Jithell]

I just got sample pack of 6. 2 Cuaba, 2 Bolivar, 2 Trinidad. It's one of the trinidads thats got the problem, the more read on the internet though the more i think it is just discolouration so i've just put it in the humidor.

[Gary]

Hi Jamie, welcome to the forum mate.

With regard to your "green spots" question on one of your cigars, I consider my self a pretty knowledgable person when it comes to cigars having had a keen interest for over 10 years, and that's why I suspect that your green spots could very well be a little more serious that "natural decolouration". I suspect that your green spots could very well be mold which occurs on cigars that have been store in conditions with too high a humidity for a certain amount of time, it's kind of like cigar cancer!

It's kind of hard to know without seeing a picture of the actual cigar. I don't know of anything to do to counter-act mold and in most cases the infected cigar or cigars usually have to be binned, as shitty as that is. If it's just a small patch you may choose to live with it, but small patches can turn into big patches and possibly spread, and if you've already put it in your humidor you might want to keep and eye on it.

It's just my 2 cents worth mate, but Cuaba and Trindad are super premium cigars that are boxed according to likeness of colour so when you get a box each cigar should practically look identical, I am a bit scheptical about "natural decolouration" mate!

[Jithell]

Thanks for the reply Gary, will try and post a few pics tomorrow:eek:

[Jithell]

Ok, so try as i might i can't find the thing to connect my phone to my PC, but i did find a picture on the internet that shows the green patches i was on about. The website it came from said it was discolouration and not mold, so i'll just keep an eye on said cigar and all the others just incase.

[cj121]

Hi Jamie,
Welcome to the forum from a newbie also. Only been schmoking cigars properly since the start of the year, although not adverse to a stick in the past now and again.
Hope you enjoy your time here.

I've had, from a newb perspective, the odd green discolouration on a stick. It wasn't necessarily a 'mark', or 'blob', more a slurr that seemed to go with the leaf growth direction. Not very long or overly noticeable. It's completely gone now though!! Can't believe it:confused: Must have been all that heat and flame that passed it by on the way to the nub:rock:!
Catchya later,
Chris

[cohibaIV]

Welcome mate, look forward to reading your posts....:rock:

[Deano]

Welcome, hope you get your answers and enjoy the site further :)