Plume doesn't appear on bands either and is crystalline. But I've smoked quite a few cigars with mold none quite that bad but close. Once bought 10 AVO's that got infected for 2$ apiece. Mold or not I wasn't passing on that.
Plume/bloom at only 4 years? That should have been your first clue! Had you said 10-12 years or more then possibly. I have plenty of cigars older than 4 years and none have any plume. Most cases of plume on cigars forums have been mold. Check the rest of your sticks and clean the humi with alcohol and segregate any of your other sticks that have "plume/bloom". I also like to remove those cloth-ribbon foot bands as they are notorious for causing mold issues.
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