So I'm in the mood for a cigar this afternoon, so I go digging through the humidor to see what jumps out at me.
I decide to smoke a Montecristo Platinum tubo I picked up at a place in Branson last summer.

I take it outside and remove it from the tube to find this.







Needless to say I was terrified. I went through all of my cigars and inspected them very carefully and found no other mold. I'm hoping and praying that this is the only one and that the tube had something to do with it. It was lined with a cedar sleeve which they say is supposed to help with mold, but it didn't stop this one.

My humidity is controlled by 65% Heartfelt beads and stays around 63% or so, so I don't think I will have any additional issues.
I'm also glad that this was the one effected. There are several Anejos, a couple of Davidoff Nicaragua box pressed, an OpusX or two, some Padron Anniversary stuff, and a few from about 70 miles south of Miami in there. I would cry if I had a mold outbreak.
I don't have a lot of sticks, but the ones I have are quality.

So now I'm on the balcony with a Padron 1964 maduro, thanking the almighty that it was only one stick.
I will be watching very closely in the next few weeks.