MOLD!!! First issue with this.

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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.

Recently smoked one of two Dunhill cigars that had been in their ceder sleeved Tubes for four or more years.
Neither had any signs of Mold. The one smoked had near zero taste. Tossed the second one.
Might just be that the cigar when Cedar sleeved was wet enough and the time in the Tube more likely was to blame for the Mold.
Remember seeing a tubed cigar on the Dashboard of a car, windows closed, all day, on a 95-100+ F. day,
expect that might've been less than best for that Cigar.
Have not seen any problems with any of the Pepin Garcia Cedros Cigars.
And come to think of it there're the Boxed La Gloria Cubana Cigars, in Cedar sleeves, Temps & Humidity in Havana not too low.,
Think I'd blame the time in the Tube.
After all look at the effect on taste too much time watching the Tube has on folks.

Edit: Completely wron ( above ) saying the La Gloria Cubanas were sleeved in Cedar the nameon the box is really CETROS, maybe refers to the box.