Mold

[Merovius]

@Upstatemax I have a new air 280. Water has been known to accumulate around the cooling unit and plate against the backs of these units. Take a look when you grab a cigar and wipe it down if necessary, as others stated there isnt much reason to be running higher than 65rh unless you want to age for several years (5+). It can help to keep dry litter or beads at the bottom where humidity accumulates.

Also, the cedar sleeves on Queen Bee's and other Fuente products are infamous for mold growth due to their lack of breathability. I personally leave all of mine on but removing them may help in the future if you absolutely have to run closer to 70rh.

Hope that helps, gl!

[Upstatemax]

@Upstatemax I have a new air 280. Water has been known to accumulate around the cooling unit and plate against the backs of these units. Take a look when you grab a cigar and wipe it down if necessary, as others stated there isnt much reason to be running higher than 65rh unless you want to age for several years (5+). It can help to keep dry litter or beads at the bottom where humidity accumulates.

Also, the cedar sleeves on Queen Bee's and other Fuente products are infamous for mold growth due to their lack of breathability. I personally leave all of mine on but removing them may help in the future if you absolutely have to run closer to 70rh.

Hope that helps, gl!

That helps, a lot.

Thank you!

I did dry out the litter that was on the bottom of the unit (baked it in the oven) and I unplugged the unit. RH has been dropping, down to about 66% at the moment.

[allusred]

This is purely guessing on my part. however after a rereading of the post from Merovius where to me this sorta "stuck out"...

***Quote:Also, the cedar sleeves on Queen Bee's and other Fuente products are infamous for mold growth due to their lack of breathability. I personally leave all of mine on but removing them may help in the future if you absolutely have to run closer to 70rh.***End of Quote.

At present I/ve only a few My Fathers that are in Cedar sleeves. But all cigars I've had that were encased in the cedar wraps, have, if stored for any decent lenght of time,felt softer,little less solid in the area covered by the cedar,compared to that which the Cedar didn't (protect)cover.
Other, non cedar wrapped cigars that spent the same time in the humidor felt a bit firmer over the entire lenght of the cigar.
Now...here's the Guessing part...and it's no more than a wild guess,thus as likely wrong as not.

My thinking is that the noted *softness* may be due to the protective cedar wrap.
And,THAT in time would surely mean a greater chance of mold developing there.

Given the extremely small chance that I could at any time be right about anything, you are best advised to totally ignore this post.

[Zeede]

Shouldn't the cedar sleeve breathe and take on the RH of the environment, much like Spanish cedar used to line humidors?

[Upstatemax]

Shouldn't the cedar sleeve breathe and take on the RH of the environment, much like Spanish cedar used to line humidors?

I have found that the cedar sleeves do lead to moisture issues. I did have the sleeves off of the Queen B's.

The first time I found mold, was on several Gran Habano 2002's, it was only under the cedar sleeves. That was before I even had the Wineador. After that, I removed all cedar sleeves from my cigars and have not seen any mold, till this past week...