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  • KenpoKnightKenpoKnight Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Bob_Luken Thanks I’m happy to share if we can all take something from it.  I told two other guys that were given the others.  I felt bad breaking the news but when they saw the pics, they were very thankful I told them.  
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2019
    I was thinking about the tar builup and seems like I might have posted a pic. I didn't find any thread that I had posted but I did find someone else's thread with a pic that looked just like what happened to me, and according to my reply this person's occurrence happened before mine did but even then my speculation involved tobacco beetles. LOL

    Here's a link to that thread ,.....
      https://forum.cigar.com/discussion/890646/tar-question#latest

    and the pic,.......

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  • KenpoKnightKenpoKnight Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob_Luken said:
    I was thinking about the tar builup and seems like I might have posted a pic. I didn't find any thread that I had posted but I did find someone else's thread with a pic that looked just like what happened to me, and according to my reply this person's occurrence happened before mine did but even then my speculation involved tobacco beetles. LOL

    Here's a link to that thread ,.....
      https://forum.cigar.com/discussion/890646/tar-question#latest

    and the pic,.......

    image



    Yikes!  That’s is pretty gross!  Did you have holes in the cigar that showed any evidence of beetles?
  • WylaffWylaff Posts: 5,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.bnbtobacco.com/blogs/bnb-tobacco/why-is-tar-coming-out-of-my-cigar

    This suggests it may be excess sap that didn't evaporate during curing. Sounds plausible. I've had it happen a couple times.
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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think I've had it happen at least once.
    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2019
    KenpoKnight said: Yikes!  That’s is pretty gross!  Did you have holes in the cigar that showed any evidence of beetles?
    Nope. But cigars can have tiny tiny eggs on the tobacco during production that hatch while inside the cigar once it gets warm enough for them to hatch and the larvae stage happens unseen. Later, when they transform into beetles, they bore their way out to mate and lay eggs. (As I understand it.)
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Significant3Significant3 Posts: 2,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that this thread has officially been high jacked along with my imagination I may never smoke another cigar. Thanks @Yakster .  


    JK. I’ll smoke them anyway!
  • KenpoKnightKenpoKnight Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    A nice satisfying and suspenseful death to the culprit.  
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2019
    I may have gotten some facts wrong in my previous post. I know there are four stages in their life cycle, egg, larvae, pupa, and adult. And I know the larvae are responsible for the major damage. But after reconsidering my earlier post, and doing a little googling, I have some unanswered questions.
     
    Does the pupa stage occur inside the cigar?
    Do the adults bore holes? 
    I have read that the adults do not feed but will drink liquids, so if the pupa stage does occur inside the cigar, does that mean adults do not bore holes and instead exit through holes already made by larvae?

    Still googling. 
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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • MartelMartel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    Continuing the tar hijack: about 10 posts down, I experienced it with an Edgar Hoil.  Ruined my night.

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