Coffins and Sealed boxes...
phobicsquirrel
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So I just want to throw this out here. I went to have a cigar out of my liberty 08 box on the 4th, now I remember sending one off to another botl here and lighting one up. Now when I pulled open the coffin on the 4th and pulled the cigar out I was shocked! I saw some white mold spots on it. I was freaking out. Now wtf? So a few days ago I went through all of them and all of them but 2 had mold on them. Some more than others but all in all it wasn't too horrible, but it got me thinking. How many of you (us) have cigars that are either sealed in boxes or or coffins or tubes we cant see? So I went through all of my boxes that are sealed and coffins and found them all to be okay but from this occurrence, to the god of fires I am very skeptical of keeping cigars sealed. I need to inspect them. Now it should be mentioned that while the box of liberties were in a large plastic tub, I had another coffin that was sealed in my dome humi and it has some spots on it too! Now that humi stays at a constand 64-65 rh and I have had no issues with anything in there. Just beware people.
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in theory, the humidity in the coffins should eventually balance out to where you are keeping your humidor if the coffins are not painted or sealed. if they are just wood all should be well. if there is plastic or a finish on the wood then the permeability of the wood is gone. it will hold whatever moisture is or is not in there. a transition in temp could change how much moisture is in the air/cigar within the coffin.
"should" being the operative word.
clearly this is not the case 100% of the time.
way to add something else to worry about.
And now with that being said, I had about 10 ISOMs sitting in a zip lock bag with a humi pillow and a thick piece of cedar. 3 of those, which are Monti #2s had mold. Note that those three montis all had the same darker color. I had a few from a different batch that were lighter and a few other romeos in there and none of them had mold. Only those three. So, I cleaned them up with a paper towel and froze them for about a week. I have just taken them and put them in the fridge. I'll re-address soon. I may save some cello and put them in there to be safe.