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I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but I sure have...

It seems to me that whenever I go into a smoke shop and take some of the cigars out of their tubes, I often find them starting to sprout plume (or bloom, whichever you like to call it).

I particularly have noticed this with Romeo y Julieta tubos. One smoke shop had several covered in bloom, the next one I went to, Godfather bought a RyJ Chuchill that was ploomed over, and today I just bought a Clemenceau that had bloom developing.

I can't quite remember, but I know I've seen other tubos in shops that had ploom on them.

So are tubes more conducive to ploom forming or do those Romeos just sit on the shelf forever cuz no one buys them, lol?

(Another question, do cigars age well if they're kept in a cedar-lined tube inside your humi?)

Since "bloom/plume" is generally agreed to be the crystalized oils from the cigars, age typically accounts for this. That being the case, it reasonably would follow that whether the cigar is cello on or off or encased in a tube/foil/whatever, it wouldn't really matter, i.e., age is age. Don't know why tubes would be condusive to the process, but who knows, there may be an explanation for it.