Mold or Plume?

[Emaresee]

Im with everyone else, it's Mold. I did try to get some Cigars tested a while back by a few renowned scientists, but it hard going to get tobacco tested in UK labs for one and harder still finding someone with the equipment, funding and interest.

However.... Having corresponded with a couple of top tier scientists who deal with bottany and mycology, I have little hope of mythical plume being real.

It's far more likely to be fungal.... There is also a real chance of it being pretty undesirable to inhale and dont think burning will suffice either.

1: You are still inhaling spores from parts or the cigar which have not yet burned.

2: Many mold spores need to be exposed to high temperature's for 20+ minutes to be destroyed.

you've been quiet for a while! and back with such good news !!


the trick I had with sticks a while back was a gentle wipe down with a tissue soaked in the humidified fluid that is basically distilled water with a trace of anti-fungal...

it worked... the sticks stayed plume free and were not hugely worse for wear... and I am still basically upright and breathing... but it could just be down to better humidor husbandry...

hope you are doin ok pal

[grumpybaldy]

And, anyway, you'd know if you had t'plume - you'd find it hard to get through't doorway..

[ValeTudoGuy]

Life gets in the way and all that. Hadn't had many sticks for a while and then had a couple recently.

So I'm kind of back on the Cigar train but not on the level I was before.

[grumpybaldy]

Life gets in the way and all that. Hadn't had many sticks for a while and then had a couple recently.

So I'm kind of back on the Cigar train but not on the level I was before.

Good to see you back.

[Vitola]

Update.....

The retailer, unprompted, has offered to send out 5 more Reyes cigars and reply paid postage to send the other cigars back.....pretty good customer service in my book from them, if you ask me.....

[mcdee]

Good result.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Yeah, can't fault Mitch's service... Always top notch in my experience.

[Simon Bolivar]

If buying in a shop, I always check, especially in carboard boxes or tubes. But if I had received these I wouldn't personally bothered sending them back. This was a pretty minimal growth & I would have brushed it off with a bristle hog hair art brush. Anyone who says they have never spotted a small amount of mould on their stock, either has a very small stock that can be individually checked regularly or they maintian a <66% humidity but in my experieince, especially during humid weather periods that can easliy rise & cause a minor problem.

[TJCoro]

Who Stole Me Tweezers?

. Anyone who says they have never spotted a small amount of mould on their stock, either has a very small stock that can be individually checked regularly ...[emphasis added]

Haha! Or a very small stick that they check regularly. I know chico stevienoballs checks his small stick for mold daily...sometimes twice a day!

Names Jay, Ray Jay, and I leathered up all the Knewbees during the UKCF DARK DAYS!

[RobBooth]

FOH asked for plume contenders and sent them off for study.....

http://www.friendsofhabanos.com/forum/topic/131757-foh-mould-study/

[Alexw33]

That’s top service

[ValeTudoGuy]

FOH asked for plume contenders and sent them off for study.....
http://www.friendsofhabanos.com/foru...h-mould-study/

Looks like while I have been out of the loop, they have achieved what I set out to.

Now im even more certain that bloom/ploom is utter nonsense.