Dissecting cigars

[Kass]

Do any of you guys dissect the nub of your cigar to see what quality tabacco goes inside the stick? I tend to look for TMV(tobacco mosaic virus) as a tell tale sign of bad tabacco.

How can you tell if there is TMV on the leaves?

[Shelby07]

How can you tell if there is TMV on the leaves?

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distrib...re/DG1168.html

[Kass]

Thanks.

[cigar no baka]

Nah, not me. I've done it once or twice; got a dogshit stick through a Cigar of the Month club and cut it open just for grins because I couldn't stand the taste.

[jiaguy]

iT spretty obvious there will be small light-colored patches, and many many of them on one leaf. The best cigar I have foudn them on is an Onyx Reserve, Robusto. But on cheapies i run into them in every stick. I am sure the virus changes the flavor of the leaf somehow... you look for these things as a cell and molecular biologist...