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Ok so I need some advise! I thought it might have been a fluke thing but this is my third Cigar that has done this to me. I will get about 1/2 inch into the cigar and it will go out. I will relight it again and smoke about another inch and it will go out again so again I relight start smoking and it will go out again with about an inch left. By then the cigar taste like an ashtray!
My RH is constantly any 66 and the temp will bounce around between the high 60's and low 70's depending on the weather here but since it has been want here I keep the AC on so it has been staying around 67. The cigars i have had trouble with range from seasoned a year to only a month or so old so I am load as to what I need to do! Please help!
 

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Some cigars do that during the summer months when the RH is up. I relight a lot more during the summer. I dry box almost everything May through September. It probably has nothing do to with you so long as you're allowing them to acclimate once you get them.
 

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just out of curiosity, do you hold or lay down your cigars between draws? and do you time yourself between draws (or have a good idea of your draw intervals)?
 

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Some cigars do that during the summer months when the RH is up. I relight a lot more during the summer. I dry box almost everything May through September. It probably has nothing do to with you so long as you're allowing them to acclimate once you get them.
I live in Michigan and so I can say we have major humidity issues here as well. ATL's responce would be my guess. A cigar can soak up RH quickly after it is lit sometimes. Dry boxing is a good suggestion but try keeping them in your basement if you have one during the summer months. I find this helps out way more than it did when I kept my cigars upstairs.
 
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just out of curiosity, do you hold or lay down your cigars between draws? and do you time yourself between draws (or have a good idea of your draw intervals)?
Typically I am holding it. I don't time my draws but I do try and draw between a minute or two.
 
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The more I think about it I probably draw more like once a minute. Maybe a minute and a half.
How exactly do you dry box? I honestly have never had this problem before but I also have never had this many cigars in my humi either.
 

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Dont worry to much brother we have had a week of constant rain and very humid otherwise. The dry box ( I keep an empty cigar box somehwere out of reach of little fingers) where I may leave them for 12-24 hours if I plan on smoking at a set time. Otherwise I just puff a little more often but alot more gently. Just the nature of.. well nature for NE
 

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just out of curiosity, do you hold or lay down your cigars between draws? and do you time yourself between draws (or have a good idea of your draw intervals)?
Typically I am holding it. I don't time my draws but I do try and draw between a minute or two.
i have buddies who lay them in a tray, with the burn line in contact with the surface, and they always have problems. might be my superstition, but to me, that acts like a heat sink, and i always keep the burn suspended in air, with the main body on the rest when necessary.

sounds like the boys voting ambient humidity might be right on this. FWIW, a leather cigar sleeve with a cedar lining works as a fair dry box if necessary. mine is packed up the night before, and 3 sticks may travel in it for a day to three. seems to work for me.
 
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I will have to try the dry box method! Thank you all for helping me with this. It was driving me nuts! I thought something might have been wrong with my Humi. But I am somewhat of a freak when it comes to the RH and temp of my humi. Thanks again guys.
 

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I have a video on dry boxing under my sig line. Also purge the cigar often during the summer when in goes out.
Purging:
Relight cigar for 20 secs with ash tapped off.
Take one very light puff in.
Blow out with a soft flame under the lit cigar until flames go out.
This will clear up any ashtray taste.
 
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I have a video on dry boxing under my sig line. Also purge the cigar often during the summer when in goes out.
Purging:
Relight cigar for 20 secs with ash tapped off.
Take one very light puff in.
Blow out with a soft flame under the lit cigar until flames go out.
This will clear up any ashtray taste.
Awesome! I will check that our right after I am done posting this! Also thanks for the tip on getting rid of the ashtray taste. Good looking out! Thanks brother
 
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Jfire has some great tips man, give them a good look. I purge with most any stick every once in a while. I also agree with a lot of the above, the weather down here in FL has been super wet. Normally its quick rain but the storms have been a little more intense and as always the humidity is way up. I believe right now its 85% out here and so sticky, but I don't mind the little bit of extra work that has gone into having a evening smoke to relax to.
 
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Jfire has some great tips man, give them a good look. I purge with most any stick every once in a while. I also agree with a lot of the above, the weather down here in FL has been super wet. Normally its quick rain but the storms have been a little more intense and as always the humidity is way up. I believe right now its 85% out here and so sticky, but I don't mind the little bit of extra work that has gone into having a evening smoke to relax to.
Jfires videos are great. I watched all of them the other day. But I did come back here to update you all. I have had a handful of smokes since posted this with not one issue with burning out. It was raining here a ton when I first posted an we had not started running the AC yet. So I think the weather was to blame. Thank you all for your help. I just now need to go to my locate B&M to pick up a couple empty cigar boxes so I can try dry boxing too. However my local B&M charges for emptys so I am going to travel a little further out to see if another Local B&M charges for them. Unless that's a common practice?
 
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When you draw, you should think about taking a few short puffs and a long puff - since I see you have mentioned once a minute as a draw time that may help? When you re-light, I would recommend knocking off all the ash as well up into the cigar as far as possible without damaging the stick. Hope something on here helps!
 
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