Mold... Help!

[Baccy]

So I have had to learn my final lesson about using 69% Boveda packs. CC's just do not like the higher RH, especially when you have even slight swings in temperature. I've had the experienced old timers tell me this for years, and I guess I just like to learn my lessons the hard way, but here's my dilemma... I have one vintage SLR Churchill that someone gave me, and as most of you know these are discontinued for some time now. My stupid ass put it into a 69% environment and now it has a slight bit of mold on the foot. I think it has just started, but I was thinking about just sacrificing a slight bit of the foot and using a guillotine cutter to remove the very end of the foot along with the mold. Would this help? Or is it too late? 

[Derboesekoenig]

Are you sure it's not just on the surface? Can you wipe it off?

I hear ya on the 69%. I have all 65% bovedas and I'm about to switch to 62% or 60%

[rcarlson]

Time to smoke that bad boy.  

[inter4alia]

Wipe it and fire it up. 

[garbandz]

cut that bit off and dry the cigar down to get it past danger.

smoke it when the occasion is right.

I have trimmed a lot of sticks prior to smoking for one reason or another,better to trim a bit off, than to toss the whole thing.

[Bagman]

people are seriously recommending you smoke a cigar with on the foot (meaning it is INSIDE the cigar).  Bad advice!  Only if it is on the wrapper, it is white and it wipes away cleanly.

[Islandboy]

I’m with the “smoke it” crowd. It’s mold, not anthrax.

Also, you should turn your cigars more often.

[Baccy]

I've already wiped a bit of it off, so it's kind of hard to see but it's around the outer edge here:

...maybe I'll just toast that foot really well before smoking it?

[Bagman]

wow.  just wow.  please don't smoke this cigar.

[Islandboy]

10 minutes ago, Monterey said:

wow.  just wow.  please don't smoke this cigar.

Do you realize at all that during world war II moldy bread was a staple that kept people alive, and in fact probably boosted their immune systems? And here we are debating putting fire to the stuff. Its a cigar, after all, not a celery stick.

[Baccy]

I just smoked it... hopefully I won't die?

[Islandboy]

11 minutes ago, Baccy said:

I just smoked it... hopefully I won't die?

Happened across some PL Encantos during my recent trip through Canada that had a dusting of plume...er, mold. Couldn’t resist buying few. Pretty sure I won’t die smoking them either.

[Baccy]

1 minute ago, Islandboy said:

Happened across some PL Encantos during my recent trip through Canada that had a dusting of plume...er, mold. Couldn’t resist buying few. Pretty sure I won’t die smoking them either.

Well, honestly, if the foot was just jam packed with mold, and I and the stick was just totally infested with mold then I would just toss it out. In this case, it was barely visible and I know that it had to have just recently started to grow because I looked them over about 2-3 weeks ago. I also toasted the hell out of the foot and let it burn down a bit before a started puffing, to make sure I burned up any mold that may have been inside...

[Boozebag]

7 hours ago, Derboesekoenig said:

Are you sure it's not just on the surface? Can you wipe it off?

I hear ya on the 69%. I have all 65% bovedas and I'm about to switch to 62% or 60%

I'm with you.  I'm pretty locked at in at 65/65 currently and plan on going lower next time I buy.  My main unit will be focused more on long term once I burn through what I've got.  

[inter4alia]

6 hours ago, Baccy said:

I just smoked it... hopefully I won't die?

How'd she taste? 

[Bagman]

7 hours ago, Islandboy said:

Do you realize at all that during world war II moldy bread was a staple that kept people alive, and in fact probably boosted their immune systems? And here we are debating putting fire to the stuff. Its a cigar, after all, not a celery stick.

then by all means, smoke all the moldy cigars you want.   solid logic.  if we did it in the past, then there is no harm in doing it forever. 

i can't even believe this is a conversation.  people encouraging other people to smoke mold.

[Baccy]

3 hours ago, inter4alia said:

How'd she taste? 

Very nice, strong floral notes, almost incense like... also still had plenty of strength left after a decade

[rcarlson]

3 hours ago, Monterey said:

then by all means, smoke all the moldy cigars you want.   solid logic.  if we did it in the past, then there is no harm in doing it forever. 

i can't even believe this is a conversation.  people encouraging other people to smoke mold.

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27 minutes ago, Baccy said:

Very nice, strong floral notes, almost incense like... also still had plenty of strength left after a decade

Monterey, I think you're reaction measured against the pictures (and timing of last visit to the stick) are a little mismatched.  As someone else said, it's not anthrax.  There's just a bit visible at the surface of the foot.  Just in time to toast off. . . for a lovely floral, and perhaps even antibiotic, mold.  

[luv2fly]

3 hours ago, Monterey said:

then by all means, smoke all the moldy cigars you want.   solid logic.  if we did it in the past, then there is no harm in doing it forever. 

i can't even believe this is a conversation.  people encouraging other people to smoke mold.

[Baccy]

This is one tough stick! I also left about 1/3 of this churchill sitting outside, under a covered patio for over 2 WEEKS! ... I must say, it's still tastes about the same, not exactly but pretty darn close, nice burn too... Just flick the ash off and light er up! We haven't had any rain here for this entire time, and also the humidity has been hovering around 60, but it's a little drier now. I'm guessing that's why it's still good and not covered in mold because of the fairly stable RH. Has anyone tried a similar experiment of their own???

[ponfed]

3 hours ago, FatherOfPugs said:

Never that long in between relighting a cigar. I've come back to one a few hours later and relit, longest I've left an unfinished cigar was coming back to it the next day, tasted ok, but not the same. Interesting the environment was able to maintain your cigar for that long.

I tried that with a RG Perla once... let me tell you if you try this make sure it's at least a 6 inch long stick..... cause that RG smelled like a full ashtray that's been left out in the rain.

[Ericbrobes]

On 9/2/2018 at 1:55 AM, Baccy said:

I just smoked it... hopefully I won't die?

Good for you ????