i live in arizona. i order cigars online quite often and i participate in box splits. my question is this. sometimes in the summer, i'm sure that my mailbox reaches temperatures well above 150 degrees. probably closer to 200 degrees actually. when the high temps exceed 110 degrees for weeks at a time, what effect will this have on cigars?
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summertime question
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bad effects...very bad effects. cigars reaching 200 deg in a mailbox is cause for spontaneous combustion.
you should probably go ahead and send all your stuff to me to hold onto for you til summertime is over. it IS just arond the corner you know?!?!
you should probably go ahead and send all your stuff to me to hold onto for you til summertime is over. it IS just arond the corner you know?!?!
hdroadglide
BoM x 2, BoY 2011
i've often wondered the same thing. it gets relatively hot here in the summer, too. so far i've not had issues, but i try to leave them indoors for some time before i handle them to let them acclimate to the temperature. heck, we have no idea what temperatures and humidity levels they get to while in transit as well.
Mitch
BOM 2/09-Keeper BOTtLe
If you don't want to freeze, isolate them in a tuppidor for the first month or so and move them when you know they are safe. I remember a box pass last summer where a cigar or two grew legs.
I guess, if one of you guys are into engineering things, you could devise a way to make a cooled mailbox! Set up a Mailador!! that would be AWESOME!! A thermoelectric mailbox, would sell like crazy around the boards!!
It would also work for pervert's edible sex toys! I mean...chocolates. Yeah.
I try to have things sent to the office for this reason. Doubt you want the expense, but buying a PO Box or Mailboxes Etc. would work.
BagfullofPings
IEHHC
In the past 4 years, I have never had a beetle problem. My office is in the Palm Springs area and that is where everything is shipped. Even in my house, the temp is around 80*...That means the cab and the desktops are around the same temp.
With that said, I'm not a big trader, box splitter, etc. I don't/won't put potential problems in my cab or Prometheus desktop (the good stuff). If somebody gives me a cigar, I put it in one of the yard gars humidors. If it is a good cigar and nothing is growing on it after a while, I will throw it into my good humis.
Jason
With that said, I'm not a big trader, box splitter, etc. I don't/won't put potential problems in my cab or Prometheus desktop (the good stuff). If somebody gives me a cigar, I put it in one of the yard gars humidors. If it is a good cigar and nothing is growing on it after a while, I will throw it into my good humis.
Jason
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I can't say I've ever had my smokes placed into my mailbox, and I live in a similar desert. Be sure that your cigars REST. Can't stress this enough. They are going to sweat in such high heat, and the Rh is going to be off the charts up and down until they have had enough time to level out properly. I agree with keeping them apart from your main stock for at least 30 days.
Bear
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I live in Nevada and it gets upward to 110 here during the summer months... I've never had a beetle problem and packages have sat in the box all day... I wouldn't risk them there for a week, but one day isn't going to hurt em... IIRC, the process that larvae hatch takes more than a day of warm temps think I heard 3-5 days...
Craig Mac
BoM 4/10 7/11 12/14
Same here, avoids leaving them in the elements as well as sneaky neighbors.
There's really no way to tell if a cigar has beetle eggs in them right? If you see a hole....then the larvae already hatched and ate the tobacco. The hole doesn't mean a beetle ate it's way in and laid eggs.
Do I have that right?
gibbleguts
BoM april 09
I think that most cigars will have some eggs in them. There is not much worry if you maintain them properly. Here we don't have to worry much as we only a fairly short time above 70. Most of the year we heat to that temp.
