Different sticks in humidor

[Boulder257]

I am sure there is no problem with this, but I want to make sure I ask anyway...Does it do any harm to your sticks if you put different kinds in the same humidor? I have all kinds of different stogies (sizes, brands, wrappers, flavors) in the humidor and I don't want the flavors to become tainted by the others.

[chibnkr]

Originally Posted by Boulder257

I am sure there is no problem with this, but I want to make sure I ask anyway...Does it do any harm to your sticks if you put different kinds in the same humidor? I have all kinds of different stogies (sizes, brands, wrappers, flavors) in the humidor and I don't want the flavors to become tainted by the others.

No. It does not really make a difference, so long as you do NOT...let me repeat...NOT store flavored tobacco products (some call them flavored cigars, I can't really call them cigars) with normal cigars.

[Boulder257]

That's what I figured. Funny thing is I actually started with those "flavored" cigars... My favorite was Watermelon!

Now, I can't even go near those things!!!!

[RPB67]

Originally Posted by Boulder257

I am sure there is no problem with this, but I want to make sure I ask anyway...Does it do any harm to your sticks if you put different kinds in the same humidor? I have all kinds of different stogies (sizes, brands, wrappers, flavors) in the humidor and I don't want the flavors to become tainted by the others.

It doesn't make a difference. It takes a while for flavors to marry.

It also takes a good pallete to taste the difference if the flavors do marry.

[Tidefan73]

Could you imagine if we had to have a different humidor for every kind of stick we had?!?!?

That wouldn't be pretty!!!




Different sticks + same humidor =

[billybarue]

Originally Posted by Tidefan73

Could you imagine if we had to have a different humidor for every kind of stick we had?!?!?

That's what my dreams are made of!!!!!! I can envision 20 different 200 count humis in my basement - now in your mind fill them up starting with some Opus, next one Anejos, etc etc.

OK back to reality. The only thing I will add is that I do my best to store like cigars next to the same wrapper types. For example maduros next to maduros as much as I can. And if I really get OCD about it, if there are different wrapper types next to each other, or I have any concern in my mind, I will probably make sure they are in celo.

FWIW,

BillyBarue

[Marlboro Cigars]

Originally Posted by Tidefan73

Could you imagine if we had to have a different humidor for every kind of stick we had?!?!?

That wouldn't be pretty!!!




Different sticks + same humidor =

Did you miss the OPUS X cabinet in the 'post a pic of your humi' thread?

[borndead1]

Originally Posted by billybarue

That's what my dreams are made of!!!!!! I can envision 20 different 200 count humis in my basement - now in your mind fill them up starting with some Opus, next one Anejos, etc etc.

OK back to reality. The only thing I will add is that I do my best to store like cigars next to the same wrapper types. For example maduros next to maduros as much as I can. And if I really get OCD about it, if there are different wrapper types next to each other, or I have any concern in my mind, I will probably make sure they are in celo.
FWIW,

BillyBarue

That's exactly what I do. The top shelf of my ready-to-smoke humi has 3 sections: Dark, medium, light. They never stay there for more than a few weeks so I don't know about flavors blurring together but I would imagine it would take some months.


Wait....hey Billy, what would you do with barber pole wrapped cigars?

[scrawlmark]

Cellophane is a semipermeable membrane. It will pass water (slowly, as the vapor) in both directions, which is why humidors work.

It will not pass even light ions of nearly the same weight as water (this would apply only in solution or if you spilled, e.g., salt on your cigars and it sucked water out of the air).

It will not pass the relatively heavy organic molecules that comprise a cigar's flavors. Which is why the factory wraps 'em in cello.

Cigars "marry" for a year to five in lots of 30-100,000 in the mfg's aging humidors, in trays of hundred(s) lying nude (unpackaged) three to six deep in direct contact with each other. This "regulation" of small variations to match each other has gone quite as far as it will go by the time you get the (celloed) cigar, however the stick may continue to age and marry its own layers to some extent after you get it, but the effect will be small with, say fo'-dollah (and up) sticks.
It can, and usually will, happen to some great extent in low-cost, volume cigars that are not aged appreciably before they're shipped. I've not found that it "pays" to age them nude, as the volume tobaccos are more uniform than the more-heavily-cured vintages and specials in the first place. But it does pay to age them to themselves inside the cello.

Keep them separate or together, it does not matter, as those flavors will not cross the cello barrier.
Water vapor will, and so, as others have mentioned, will some of the more volatile fractions of added "flavorings," a fact you can smell blatantly when you open the box. But you may notice that you didn't smell it untill you opened the box or mazo -- the mylar in which those are packaged these days is also impermable to water and light organics.
You may keep "flavoreds" in their own box or one pressed into that service in a humidor in which all other cigars are packaged (unopened mazos) or boxed, even if the boxes (of either kind) have been opened.

However, one reason for the truth of that has been mentioned as a standing joke around here: "larger humidor -- or smoke faster?" One presumes that the 30-cent to buck-and-a-halfs will be smoked a lot faster than the fi'-dollah stuff. The natural result of this relationship is that my best "75-200" boxes are holding the various spendy stuff until I have the inclination, elbow room, or guests to sit with them, while the bureau and the smaller scatterboxes are holding the stuff that gets broke out all day every day.

P.S.: Did somebody mention "dreaming" of 20 humidors in the basement?
I've got 23 in office, l.r., kitchen, bedroom.
I sit on my slab and dream of a basement!

"23," sic. They're housing some 70 mazos/boxes at the moment, about 1700 sticks. Because I must shop the specials and and buy the 4-fers, and whaddaya do with 100 of these and 400 of those and a supersmackin' sampler in the same shipment?
15-20 cigars/day comes to 5-7000 a year.
My Dream Cigar?
Whatever costs 25-45 cents and doesn't leave my guts or my brain in the toilet.
And the number of those floating around in large numbers is the TRVE Miracle of the Leaf.

[hova45]

some say yes some say no, I don't think it has immediate effects long term flavors from the sticks will be combined so as long as it isn't long term no need to worry.