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jlmarta
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Man, am I ever confused. I'm in the process of burning my first ever Armada. One of the ones that came with my first COTM order. I'm sitting out on my patio where the RH is about 25% and the stick has been in my 65% coolidor since it arrived around the first of this month.
The minute I torched it, the wrapper began to split - not bad enough to ruin it, but about an inch-and-a-half long. As I smoke it, the split continues at about the same length ahead of the burn line. I'm using the old slide-the-band-up-to-the-split trick to try to hinder the splitting.
If I had taken a drier stick out into a higher-humidity area, I might understand why it's splitting but the conditions are just the reverse. Have any of you guys ever experienced this type of thing? What did I do wrong? I'm enjoying the smoke otherwise, but this has me baffled.
The minute I torched it, the wrapper began to split - not bad enough to ruin it, but about an inch-and-a-half long. As I smoke it, the split continues at about the same length ahead of the burn line. I'm using the old slide-the-band-up-to-the-split trick to try to hinder the splitting.
If I had taken a drier stick out into a higher-humidity area, I might understand why it's splitting but the conditions are just the reverse. Have any of you guys ever experienced this type of thing? What did I do wrong? I'm enjoying the smoke otherwise, but this has me baffled.
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Maybe that's the case with yours? There was just too much filler, and the wrapper couldn't accommodate it?
as long as the binder doesn't split, the cigar is typically still smokable, but none the less, a $20 stick should have ZERO issues like this, especially when it has been well cared for.
on a positive note, did you at least enjoy the phenomenal flavors of those (typically) incredible cigars?