Strange substance showing up in humidor

adamc5488
adamc5488 Posts: 3 ✭
in Cigar 101
Would anyone be able to tell me what this is? Looks and feels like corn meal. Can’t find any damage to the cigars, boxes, or humidor itself.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,702 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Could be humidity beads, what are you using for humidity in the humidor?

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    do you have kids? If so you might ask them....

  • adamc5488
    adamc5488 Posts: 3 ✭
    Using a cigar oasis humidifier with humidity beads. The substance is pretty far away from the unit though, humidor is 4’ w x 7’ h.
  • TX98Z28
    TX98Z28 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like Heartfelt beads to me, If not it’s the Corona Virus.
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  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's plume, bro. Looks like that humidor is ready to be smoked.
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  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Termite turds?

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  • EgoBoundary
    EgoBoundary Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have had beetles before... I don’t remember these little white things... I would scope out for holes in the sticks just in case?
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,179 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's little pieces of your humidity beads, Daniel. Why would you have to ask, DZR? You're not much of a detective are you?

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  • BKDog
    BKDog Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's frass. It could be from woodworms or possibly tobacco beetle larvae. I'm not an expert, but that's what I would say. After you clean the entire humidor, see if there's any wood damage.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good thing it's not swarf.
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  • firehouseguy
    firehouseguy Posts: 996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Or Bline
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  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Or cragg?
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    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    But seriously, I didn't know that frass existed without it's companion element Sasa. This has just destroyed my world.


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    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I vote frass.

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  • adamc5488
    adamc5488 Posts: 3 ✭

    May potentially be frass, from what I see online though it says it would be softer and more powdery if it was. The stuff in the humidor is harder, more like grains of sand. Haven’t totally removed all the boxes yet but can’t find any damage other than a couple missing wooden shelf pins. Not sure why bugs would only eat that type of wood, seems more likely they were missing to begin with.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 

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