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Originally Posted by Robb01
I just got home from a weekend trip, apparently someone left my humi open while i was gone ( little sister most likely), when i found it the temp was at 77. I noticed several of the cigars had small holes in them, they were nearly perfectly circular. Im not sure exactly where the cigars came from or which one was affected first. I googled pictures of cigar beetles and it looks just like my cigars, what should i do? I took out the cigars that were affected and tossed them, but what should i do about all the other cigars in the humi? Im really not sure how long the humi was open and when the beetles first started
im really at a loss here, i dont want to lose my whole assortment, ~50 cigars. Hopefully theres a way to save them
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I found a beetle hole in one cigar in a cab of 50. I tossed the one with the hole, and froze everything else.
I put everything in ziplock freezer bags, freezer for 2 days, fridge for one, room temp for a few hours, and then back in the humi. I haven't had any reappearance of holes since. The cigars are also smoking just the way I remember them. So, there's no adverse effect on the smoking experience (give them time to rest and acclimate after freezing, though). I started sequentially freezing most of my other stuff out of sheer paranoia.