Burn Baby Burn.... Cigar inferno

[Boss Hog]

Any one had this before?

As I settled down the other night with my favourite book and cocco after a long day, I fired up a Rocky Patel ITC 10th.
15mins in all was going well until I started to take another draw and without warning the wrapper sparked up.
The cigar itself died and had to be relighted later. but as you can see the first part of the ash is still there and had no problems smoking it up to that point.
Anyway I soldiered on with it and it still smoked ok. The only thing I can think of was cracked wrappers but I dont remember seeing anything in my pre flight checks?

[MaledettoToscano]

Wow that looks nasty! Happy to hear it smoked OK in any case, never had this myself.

[saggel]

aoutch...

[whisky77]

Combustion!

New one on me Boss.looks like it is doing some kind of self combustion.

[SeanP]

Hey Boss, what were your smoking conditions like? Almost looks like you had humid conditions and the filler expanded quicker then the wrapper and it split the wrapper. Once it split it allowed the edge to catch and start to burn. Plus it going out tells me the filler got a bit moist (supporting the expansion theory). This is what was meant on the other thread with the 'exploding' cigars.

I smoke outside or in my shed and have the elements to contend with. I've adapted for this by keeping my sticks a bit drier (in the mid to lower 60%RH range instead of near 70%RH) or dry boxing them for a day or two before smoking and have had no problems with it since.

HTH

[Boss Hog]

This time of year and on this occasion I was smoking in my kitchen, although the windows were open. from what you said it looks like thats what happened.
I normally keep them at 63-65%RH. I'll look up the exploding cigar thread, I'm not sure I remember that.

[misterbulgarin]

I smoke out in the cold, well, outside, which happens to be cold. I somtimes smoke with a gas heater in my vicinity and I sometimes get funny wrapper behavior, burstin, weird burn, I don't think cigars had cold winter UK nights in mind

[monkey66]

Were you purging at the time with a mouth full of Grappa

[Boss Hog]

No but you've just given me an idea there