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Thanks to all of you who responded to my topic. I think that indeed these new cigars needed more time to settle in. They are burning fine now, and getting easier to light. I put a new box of these cigars in another tuppidor and won't touch them for a month. If I do run into more problems I...

Shibumi, I do turn the cigar as I light it (and I do toast the foot first). I had not used a hygrometer because I had assumed that the beads would do the trick without monitoring. theorangeman, the cigars sit on spanish cedar. emodx, the cigars are new from the vendor but they have had 3...

I've got a couple of those red-topped Rubbermaid 1.1 gallon plastic boxes. They seem to work OK (I'm using 65 beads). I put 50 loose cigars in 3 weeks ago and what is happening is this: I can never light the whole end at once, (using a Tiger single flame torch) I get about 1/4 of it lit. The...