What causes this?

[BigWill]

Hello All,

What causes this green streak? This is a Hoyo Epi #2, Not sure what it is or if I should smoke it. What do you all think, I've never seen this before. Thanks for the input.

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[nikesupremedunk]

From my understanding its caused by water during the drying process and is perfectly normal and does not interfere with smoking.

I'm sure someone will be able to explain better but fire that sucker up!!

[Skyfall]

It's fine, it's just a water mark. Nothing wrong with it at all. It's basically a stain.

[Habana Mike]

Sun spots. Water on the leaf causes the chlorophyll to heighten in that area.

Nothing to worry about, it's a natural product of nature.

[Guest rob]

The tobacco leaves are green before drying and fermentation turns them brown. I believe the green spots on wrappers is from is from when the fermentation was not complete.

Water spots, I believe, leave a discoloration that tends to be a very light brown - almost bleached look.

[subport]

This is really really dangerous! I suggest you to collect all the cigars with the discolouration like that (even the slightest ones) and send them to me immediately. I have a very special place to save the humanity from this disease. It is my man cave where I burn them all to ash (address sent in pm)

[BigWill]

Thanks friends. I'm very new to this and I'm just starting to build my collection.

[shlomo]

The tobacco leaves are green before drying and fermentation turns them brown. I believe the green spots on wrappers is from is from when the fermentation was not complete.

Water spots, I believe, leave a discoloration that tends to be a very light brown - almost bleached look.

That's right. That is not a water spot, just a vein that didn't cure properly. I doubt anybody would be able to taste a difference.

[Smallclub]

Chlorophyll, what else?

[LeafLover]

Smoke away

[earthson]

Highly toxic histo-chloro-boxo-methyl-donda-muriatic-spinderella #7. Please send to me ASAP for slow, secure, savory biohazard disposal (by flame, of course!)

Hell, I'll even smoke it to make sure it was indeed poisonous! (For rilla, though, you get all sorts of leaf imperfections. If it isn't a fuzzy-type of fungus, mold, smoke away!)

P.S.: Assuming you smoked it, did you notice any untoward change in flavor as you passed this point? I doubt it. I could probably find several sticks in my collection with green tinges here and there.

[Guyman1966]

I'm glad you posted this question. Everyday there is good info to be found here. While for some this is a no-brain question... it taught me more about CC's. Thank you.

[rcarlson]

You'll see that plenty as you move along. I have never found anything with the discoloration that affected taste in any way. Like the post rolling white water spots (reverse liver spots), just kinda ugly, that's all.

[Susanne]

Chlorophyll streaks... not a big deal, I heard it was from trying to cure too fast or having water on the leaves. Unless it's pervasive it won't affect the flavor. (At one time Candela was a preferred wrapper, and those were the same condition taken to an extreme!)

Actually, the proper disposal technique for such infected cigars is via incineration... slow, gentle incineration... ;-) I'll be happy to volunteer my services...

[Professor Twain]

Great discussion. One of the best boxes of cigars I've had, a cab of 2007 RASS, had a number of cigars with a fair bit of green. In some cases it actually discolored the band. No effect on the quality of the smokes.

[Dbone]

Sometimes the green are in spots called frog eyes

[Andy04]

Greeness will occur if the the drying process of the leaf occurs too fast. Basically the greenness is chlorophyll that was dehydrated too quickly.

Eg, a candela wrapper will be dried in around 48 hours (using a process of applying heat) as opposed to a standard leaf that will be air dried and may take up to a few weeks to slowly dehydrate.

Even if air dried correctly, the veins and stem will take longer to cure to a brown color than the leaf. If not allowed to fully cure before fermentation the green will remain.