Mould!

[bambini]

So what you're saying is that mould will grow whether we like it or not, and we should all just learn to put up and shut up?

Arf, are you some sort of mycologist or summat?

[tippexx]

So what you're saying is that mould will grow whether we like it or not, and we should all just learn to put up and shut up?

Arf, are you some sort of mycologist or summat?

Yes. It's nature's way of doing certain things and a little beyond our total control.

No. I'm just a graphics designer.

And no you don't have to put up with it. You just have to keep your humi, boxes and tup well monitored. Make sure your humi's kept clean. Make sure your hands are as clean as possible when you touch your cigars. Decide on the humidity you best like to smoke your stocks at .... and go from there.

[ACMCC]

+ 1 Arf, All the details and topics around mould etc. have been done before so plenty of extra info on the board from a year or so ago.

Reloading Boveda/Humi sachets is also very easy and well reported, pop it in a tupperware container on something with distilled water in the base of the container, leave for a week or so and it's puffed up full, I tested a load a while ago and works perfect - 69% spot on, use about 8 or so, 10ish recharges in a year.

I removed all my humidifiers as they tended to fluctuate more, control of moisture/ventilation/temperature together is your best bet, I know no more than others with regard to mould on cigars, but am a registered Damp/Dry rot/wet rot/infestation specialist in the building industry (Done loads of courses ) and it's a similar situation, there are billions of spores in the air everywhere! brush em out, drop the RH, watch the temp, smoke them ones, and you should be fine.

[bambini]

OK, I've just rubbed them down with surgical spirit. So far so good. I'll let you know how I get on

[Puff Scotty]

Yes. It's nature's way of doing certain things and a little beyond our total control.

No. I'm just a graphics designer.

And no you don't have to put up with it. You just have to keep your humi, boxes and tup well monitored. Make sure your humi's kept clean. Make sure your hands are as clean as possible when you touch your cigars. Decide on the humidity you best like to smoke your stocks at .... and go from there.

Just a graphics designer ! But a voice of sense & reason in the cacaphony of sound.....

[Puff Scotty]

OK, I've just rubbed them down with surgical spirit. So far so good. I'll let you know how I get on

I would have drunk that to kill the mold spores in my tummy .
Just kidding... Ithink?

[Lads2000]

This thread has come at the right time for me. I found Mold at the weekend on one of my cigars a culebras. It was in it's coffin and then in the original box so I'm hoping that this contained the mold as all of my other cigars appear to be clean. I have removed the offending article and going to sort it out this weekend.

I think this is because my humi has been slightly over humified for a while. In fact I have been struggling to get it below 70%. I currently use two digital hygros one in the singles draw and one in the bottom box area and been using gel as my hydration method. This sits in the singles draw as I noticed this seemed to give the best hydration across the whole of the humi. Once I found the mold I removed the hydration pack and it has not been in the humi for over a week and although the humidity has droped a bit it is still showing as 70% down from 71%. I'm at a loss as to how I can get this down further. I ended up taking the hydration out during the summer as again I felt that maybe it was over humidifying and this took a week for the levels to drop suffeciently. However I also find the singles draw drops sharply and the boxes stay a bit more constant. If I add the humidifier in the sigle section this does have an effect on the bottom box section though. I'm really struggling with this any ideas?