cigars had a very tight draw-adivce pls

[Ewan154]

Hi,
I had some montecristo no.5 cigars and some Romeo and Juliet no3 cigars had a very tight draw when I smoked them. Am I doing something wrong?

My humidor was seasoned right and the humility in my humi's is 67%/68% I use boveda packs.


Am I doing something wrong?

My local cigar shop told me that all 42 Ring Gauge could have a very tight draw. And small cigars like the montecristo no.5 have tight draws as well.

[cigarmo]

Not heard that before. How did the cigars feel? Hard or soft.

[Ewan154]

No the cigars with were not hard or soft. They looked heathly.

[cj121]

A careful jab up the bottom with a tooth pick or similar will help your draw. You could also pop one in the fridge for an hour beforehand.

You're doing nothing wrong but some tight draws are inevitable.

[EarwaxUK]

My local cigar shop told me that all 42 Ring Gauge could have a very tight draw. And small cigars like the montecristo no.5 have tight draws as well.

Never heard that before. Also, I had a Bolivar No. 3 recently which is very slender 34 ring and it was one of the loosest draws I've smoked.

[PeeJay]

Did you cut enough off the end?

[nplymouth]

Me neither, I have had problems with RYJ before, don't know why... But none recently!

Every now and again I smoke w cigar which I haven't tried before and dislike the draw, which is why I always buy 3/4 so I can experience them apart and if I conclude one was bad, I haven't written them all off.

Now that being said, in Plymouth we have a very small tobacconist who I've used before. I bought a punch coronation only to find it was mouldy... Went back and watched the guy check his stock, 90% was ruined...

My point is, if they hadn't kept them properly, all the ones you bought would be "bad" as you suggested!

N


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[Ewan154]

I think I did. Not very good at cutting cigars.

Some of the cigars were perfect, while others had a tight draw.

[ValeTudoGuy]

It happens sometimes. As CJ said, give it a jab in the back end.

[cj121]

Some interesting points are raised here that might help you out

http://www.puff.com/forums/vb/cigar-questions/101627-could-not-get-draw.html

[tommy]

You can buy a tool called the draw improver or something for badly rolled cigars. I might have a link.

[EarwaxUK]

You can buy a tool called the draw improver or something for badly rolled cigars. I might have a link.

Or you can use a toothpick or cocktail stick as [MENTION=201]cj121[/MENTION] suggested above

[tommy]

Hmm can't find it but you could use a crochet hook too. It's a spike with a hook groove cut into it to snag offending leaves on the way out. Or a nice drill bit.
I tend to either cut the cigar off where it feels hard or ditch it and select another.

[Captain Quintero]

The biggest thing I've found you can do to stop problems with draw is to reduce humidity. When I dropped down to 62-65% I essentially stopped getting plugged and tight draws. Going down from 68-70% made a huge, huge difference

I went down to 52% and found vastly increased levels of flavour intensity and draws. Beyond 52% I ran into issues with wrappers being too delicate.

[PeeJay]

Welcome to the forum @Captain Quintero, why don't you pop over to the newbie thread and introduce yourself