Questions You Thought Too Stupid To Ask

[JollyRogers]

what ever cigar you smoked during the typing of this I NEVER WANNA SMOKE lol

Maybe he took a trip and never even left the farm?

We had similar trains of thought lol

[allusred]

We had similar trains of thought lol

Have heard folks claim their thoughts wandering.
But sending them off on trains?
One way or round trip tickets?

[restomod]

Stupid question, a lot of my smokes seem to be really hard to keep lit lately. I find myself puffing way to often just to make sure it stays lit and when I dont it goes out. At first I thought it was just one cigar but it seems to happen a lot.

So a few things, one) do a lot more bums experience this on a more regular basis than I think? I dont have a ton of people that smoke so I am kind of on my own so I dont have a gauge.

Two) to me it seems to be a humidity problem so I have been slowly backing down from 68 to 66 sometimes 65 in both humidors thinking this will help. Doesn't seem to make a difference? I would think getting below 65 these things should be going off in my hand so I havent ventured below 65. Am I actually making things worse and there is a reason I should be up around 68-69?

[AlanS]

I use boveda's exclusively, all are 65% and never have any issues.

[B daddy]

Stay above 55-ish and you're fine.

Also, are you sure the hygrometers are calibrated?

Sounds like a humidity thing to me but 66-ish generally doesn't give me burn problems.

[bluenoser]

Also how long are you letting them sit at the new rh? I've been told the general rule of thumb is a cigar takes a week per 1% to change so if you're just changing RH and trying them the next day the cigars haven't acclimated to the new rh yet. Just a thought

[restomod]

I believe they are reading accurate, at least as of three months ago when I had an empty wineador to test them witha boveda.

Hard to say exact times of when the changes occurred but I have been steadily coming down from 68-69 when I first started the wineador down to 65 now. So over a three month period but also to make things complicated a few sticks were rott from the b&m but not all.

I haven't exactly had ideal conditions outside when I smoke earlier with the wind. I would think that could go both ways either blowing it out or fanning it and making it burn faster?

[bluenoser]

From my experience I've seen more often that wind causes tunneling more so than loss of flame. How's the draw on them?

[restomod]

From my experience I've seen more often that wind causes tunneling more so than loss of flame. How's the draw on them?

Yes now that you say that I do get tunnelling but I didn't realize that was a thing or think about. What happens then?

[JollyRogers]

I keep my cigars at around 65% RH and the thing I have to focus on most is when I puff, nice slow draws but making sure that I see the wrapper staying lit. I smoke slow so my cigars have a tendency to stay lit at the core but not all the way to the outside edge/wrapper. This ends up letting my cigars tunnel and eventually go out. Next time you smoke take a look and see if you notice the edge of the wrapper burning...