Ok, I'm going to sound like a newb but that's ok...

Last 2 cigars I had hace been.. Not so nice to me... Roma craft intemprence and a M.F. judge. The Roma craft was an amazing smoke... But kept going out on me(3 times total) but I did nub it. The judge ... welll... didn't get 10 draws out of it before I tossed it. The foot while toasting started splitting and cracking... And when it was lit, the wrapper was so dry it would just flake off and just the filler would be lit...

I have been fighting temperature here in Kansas. Was getting up into the high 70s in my tupperdor so I took to my parents where I knew it would be cool down in the basement... by the way im using 65% bovedas and bovedas smart sensor that had been calibrated twice ...Went from 76-78deg. To 64deg .. i let it sit for a week... Now I'm getting these problems after switching to a cooler area. I did move the box to an area that is stable at 69deg. Will temp make thar big of a difference? Or do I have another problem...

How long shpuld I let them rest? I'd there is any tips I couple do please enlighten me.

Thank you for the help.

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Maybe too dry? What's the ambient RH where you smoked the cigars? Had wrapper cracking problems when the RH here was in the teens and below. Had to smoke cigars with thicker wrappers - broadleaf or corojo/criollo...

Temperature really doesn't matter in regard to wrappers cracking unless there's no humidity to go with them. You say you're using Boveda, do you have a hygrometer in your humidor to read your actual humidity? It may be running dry.

It takes a lot more than a week to "change" a cigar that is over, or under humidified..........especially if it is in cello.

Just lick on it like its a big ole ummm NM... Just send us all pictures.

To reiterate a couple points already made above - your issue is likely a combination of things, likely all humidity related. Some of the big cigar retailers, CI/CBID, especially, have a reputation for storing their cigars at higher humidity than most of us would likely prefer for our ready-issue humis. So, it is always a good idea to let new cigar sit for at least a couple weeks in your storage, preferably more. That's even more important lately, IMO, since I've gotten some that are extraordinarily dry, lately, too. You just have no way of knowing how they were stored. Cigars don't acclimate or settle quickly, either. If there's been a recent or sudden change in humidity, the binder/filler and wrapper aren't in synch as far as moisture content and the burn will be unreliable. Even a cigar that is stable throughout can experience burn problems if you smoke it in a very humid or very dry environment.

I don't know anything about the Judge, but I do smoke a box of RomaCraft per month and I can tell you that my opinion is that the QC may have slipped slightly in recent shipments. They are still an amazing cigar for the price, but the availability seems to have skyrocketed, and I wouldn't be surprised if vastly increased production has led to less than perfect rolls.

You think dyslexic people visit this thread excpecting a spirited discussion about triscuit packaging?

dstieger mentioned another possible culprit...rapid humidity and/or temperature rises/drops suffered by the cigar can cause swelling and shrinking of the wrapper...this can lead to thin imperceptible cracks in the cigar's wrapper leaf that split when the cigar is smoked...

cracker wrapping?
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not a crapper wracking?

Try this.

1) Build a coolodor. You'll need a 120 qt cooler. Walmart has them for $59.99. You'll also need a couple pounds of 65% heartfelt beads and a couple small battery operated fans. For less than $150 you'll have a cooler capable of keeping 600 or so cigars perfectly humidified at a stable temperature.

2) After you build your cooodor, every month buy 3 months worth of cigars. In 3 months, you will have nine months of cigars set aside. Three months worth will be in perfect smoking condition provided your coolodor is set up properly.

3) Go to step 1). Lather, rinse, repeat.

As you build your stash of daily smokes, start buying some better cigars and bury them at the bottom and ignore them for at least 2, but preferably 5 years.

Once you have a supply of yard gars, I'd recommend you start buying at least one box of sleeper cigars a month to age. These need to be quality smokes, not bundles. Consider Padron x000's, Joyo De Nicaraguans, La Aurora's, Don Pepin & Jamie Garcia rolled cigars, Oliva's to name a few With a few years of age, they begin tasting just like the much higher priced premium cigars.

The best cigars to age are the med/ful to full flavor cigars. Maduro's are also great cigars to age. Aging has a way of balancing and mellowing strongly favored cigars. Mild cigars aged more than a year or so will lose most if not all of their flavor. Also, keep in mind that a chitty cigar aged for 3 years is gonna taste like a 3 year old chitty cigar.