Tiny white hairs on cigars?

[megladon8]

I wish I could take a pic but unfortunately my cell phone camera will not take one of a high enough resolution that they will show.

After inspecting my collection I noticed that the hairs do appear on nearly all my habanos, but are not on any of my maduros, nor on my Don Tomas Clasicos.

I'm not worried. Nothing seems to be "spreading" or growing, and it seems to just be the structure of the leaf.

 

[andy]

Mold is mold is mold and mold on cigars doesn't have to be green or blue. White mold grows on cigars just as well as green or blue mold does. The pictures above are of white mold.

You should take precautions now or you won't even get a chance to let your money go up in smoke. It ain't spreading now but It will. Mold always does.

If you believe it's plume and not mold, try this test. Put a couple of sticks with the white stuff covering them next to the sticks that don't and see if the white stuff ends up on the sticks that don't. Plume won't transfer from stick to stick but mold will. You could also stick a couple of the cigars with the white stuff in an isolated environment that's both dark and humid. See if that accelerates the volume of the white stuff on your cigar. If you see more white stuff after a couple-few, it's mold. If you don't, I'd love to know what it is 'cuz it ain't plume.

 

[megladon8]

Mold is mold is mold and mold on cigars doesn't have to be green or blue. White mold grows on cigars just as well as green or blue mold does. The pictures above are of white mold.

You should take precautions now or you won't even get a chance to let your money go up in smoke. It ain't spreading now but It will. Mold always does.

If you believe it's plume and not mold, try this test. Put a couple of sticks with the white stuff covering them next to the sticks that don't and see if the white stuff ends up on the sticks that don't. Plume won't transfer from stick to stick but mold will. You could also stick a couple of the cigars with the white stuff in an isolated environment that's both dark and humid. See if that accelerates the volume of the white stuff on your cigar. If you see more white stuff after a couple-few, it's mold. If you don't, I'd love to know what it is 'cuz it ain't plume.

It's just the texture of the leaf.

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

If it looked like this, it is good for a cigar and it is referred to as either "Plume" or "Bloom".

Hopefully it is not "mold", check out this article and see if it helps you determine what it is my friend.

Cigar Bloom vs. Mold: What's the dif'?

"The pictures above are of white mold."

This is "plume/bloom" and is not mold!

 

[megladon8]

My brother's cigars of the same brands and sizes have the same structure to the outer leaves.

It's just the way the leaves look. Like I said, it's pretty much invisible. It's just a very, very light hair on the outside of the leaf which is no longer than a piece of paper's thickness.

The cigars are fine.

 

[Fourtotheflush]

The bumps leating up to those hairs are sometimes referred to as mold.

 

[megladon8]

The bumps leating up to those hairs are sometimes referred to as mold.

There are no bumps.

It's just the texture of the leaf.

:yes:

 

[Treinenwj]

I made sure to closely examine my cigar today and sure enough-- teeny tiny little "hairs". Looks to me as just part of the leaf.

 

[megladon8]

I made sure to closely examine my cigar today and sure enough-- teeny tiny little "hairs". Looks to me as just part of the leaf.

Yep.

Like I said, they're evenly dispersed all over the cigar, and they are evidently just the hair-like substance you find on the surface of many, many leaves in nature.

And they really are so tiny that you need to bring them right up to your eyes to even notice them. Like I said in my original post, it was only a trick of light that made them apparent to me in the first place.