What's on my cigars

[tjhemp]

Got a five pack of Illusione Epernay and I noticed what looks like a fine powder on them. They all look the same and it isn't real obvious just in the right light. The camera seemed to pick it up pretty good. What do you think. Could it be mold, plume, or something else?

[Ropey]

Bloom?

[Laynard]

Does it wipe off? My thoughts are a mild pluming, or simply a hairy-like structure to the leaf. Doesn't look like mold to me. Could just be dust from the box they originated from.

[tjhemp]

It does wipe off pretty easily. It doesn't look like any mold I've seen on cigars. It is very uniformly covering the cigar in what is almost a white powdery substance.

[Ropey]

How long ya had 'em?

[Cardinal]

In before, "It's never plume."

But seriously...it's never plume. Right?

You use kitty litter for humidity control? Sometimes that generates a little dust, but if you say it's uniform across cigars then that answer doesn't sound right.

[Indyhp]

Looks like sheetrock dust.

[HIM]

I think this is the first time I can actually say that doesn't look like mold.

[Emperor Zurg]

I only clicked on this thread for the lulz.

I expected to see some greenish, splotchy, spiderwebby growth that was most prevalent about the cap.
I also expected that greenish growth to be called 'plume' and this to be vehemently defended.

But neither has happened. I go now.

Btw, I don't know what that dust is on those cigars.

[sparky426]

I'm going with sheetrock dust, doing any remodeling?

In all seriousness, I'd go with dust