I prefer cigars that are good ROTT as there is much less annoyance trying to figure out how long the cigars have rested, particularly since CBID only lists a couple of years now in order history.

tonygraz wrote:

IMHO No.......hell no.You're right on the edge if not in the mold zone.I keep my sticks at 58-63% with zero mold issues,aged to perfection and smokable anytime I want one.

Whistlebritches wrote:

Sharpie MM/YY of acquisition on the boxes or bundles (for example, you get a box today, mark it 3/18), and when you remove a single from a box or bundle and aren't going to smoke it immediately, just use a Sharpie and copy the box or bundle's date onto the cigar's individual cello. That way if you don't smoke the single and put it back, you'll still know its age.

I've done that since day one, and although I have thousands of cigars now, at a glace I instantly know the month and year I got each box, bundle or single, without need to refer to any records.

Beautifully simple, easy and effective.

Also, if you gift cigars to friends, they too automatically and instantly know, at a glance, how long you've aged them.
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Pudding Mittens wrote:

There's another advantage to keeping our cigars in the lower ranges that you and I seem to prefer. If you are unlucky enough to get a cigar contaminated with beetle eggs, at the humidity levels we keep ours at, there is virtually zero chance of those eggs ever hatching.

David

Mrs. dpnewell wrote:

Looks like it was a Kansas state MS study where he was referencing other published scientific papers. The Japanese study was kill times for low temp exposure. Back to the humidity... Findings were that below 30% = no hatchings at any temp. 45% to 60% they hatch but larval and pupate stages are prolonged, 70%-80% is ideal humidity for them, above 90% they can hatch into larval stage (which is where they do all the damage) but won't pupate. He goes on to explain how he was growing and harvesting eggs, and it was all being done at 65%RH.

http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/945/ChunYu2008.pdf;sequence=1 

Make of it what you will.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Interesting info, TG. From personal experience, several years ago, 2011 - 2012 (?), I won a mazo of PDR red labels for dirt cheap (big mistake all the way around). When I received them they where soaking wet and un-smokable. I threw them in one of my coolers that was in the high 50's, on a bottom rack. A couple months latter, I pulled one out, and to my horror, there where beetle holes and two dead, dried out beetles in the celo. I went through the others and found one more with holes and a dried out dead beetle inside. The only conclusion I could come to is that the low humidity of my cooler killed the beetles after they had hatched in the once over humidified cigars, saving the rest of my stash. Either that, or the tobacco used in those PDRs was of such poor quality, the beetles died from food poisoning, LOL.

David

Mrs. dpnewell wrote:

Interesting info, TG. From personal experience, several years ago, 2011 - 2012 (?), I won a mazo of PDR red labels for dirt cheap (big mistake all the way around). When I received them they where soaking wet and un-smokable. I threw them in one of my coolers that was in the high 50's, on a bottom rack. A couple months latter, I pulled one out, and to my horror, there where beetle holes and two dead, dried out beetles in the celo. I went through the others and found one more with holes and a dried out dead beetle inside. The only conclusion I could come to is that the low humidity of my cooler killed the beetles after they had hatched in the once over humidified cigars, saving the rest of my stash. Either that, or the tobacco used in those PDRs was of such poor quality, the beetles died from food poisoning, LOL.

David

Mrs. dpnewell wrote:

This is why everything coming in gets a 72 hour frozen nap before meeting the humidor.It's worked for me the last 7-8 years.

Whistlebritches wrote:

And there you have it, true genius.

If Ron can figure it out, then the rest of you have no excuse.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote: