Fellow BOTL,

Yesterday I was perched in front of my humi to admire my new acquisitions as I often do. And to my surprise I found a few of my smokes had been overrun with mold!

Overrun may be to harsh but I did see a few spots that had begun to form. The cigars in question are different brands and are from different parts of the humidor. The growth is a whitish grey color and close up looks like a tiny spider web it can be rubbed of easily, however most of the growth seems to be on the foot of each cigar with some smaller growth on the wrapper. I believe I have taken the necessary steps to prevent further damage i.e. removed and quarantined infected gars, preformed salt-test on my hygrometer and now have adjusted my cigar oasis to the correct 70% RH. Come to find out that my RH was in fact well over 80%.

I have searched the boards and have learned a lot, however I haven’t come across an answer as what to do or how to protect other cigars that may have come in contact with the infected smokes.

Is there more that needs to be done? Do my other cigars now run the risk of growing mold? If so what can be done? Currently after thorough examination I see no sign of the stuff on any other smokes.

Thank you in advance!

dpreece

There should be a lot of threads on similar problems. In fact there was one fairly recently too. Anyways from the sounds of it your right about to much humidity, that will do it. Don't keep adding any 50/50 or distilled water to your credo, there is pleanty for months. Take your cigars with mold and simply wipe them down and let them have some fresh air to dry out a tad bit. After that, place them back in your humi with the other ones should be just fine.

If your still concerned about infecting the other cigars, you can always send me the moldy ones and I will properly dispose of them without infecting your other cigars.

I'm sure you already figured this out, but make sure that it is in fact mold and not plume thats on the cigars. It sounds like you definately had the humi. to high and KNOF's right, probably the most common mistake we all make as newbies is we have a bad habit of adding more and more solution when it really is not needed. If the color is green, then it is mold but if it is a white color and wipes off like dust then its plume. Mold bad, Plume good.

Thanks for the advice fellas, that’s what I was hoping you would say….. And oh yea I think I’ll take my chances and re-integrate the smokes with the others. 😉 Thanks though!!!

-DP-