Can I ask you guys a personal question? Here goes:

My cigars, all in the same humi, yet some are more stiff than others. In fact, some can be depressed deeply and they will come back up; these are my spongy cigars. Others, they won't depress at all. They are firm. Others, are like the firm ones I mentioned, but slightly more stiff. I was squeezing my Don Diego and the wrapper cracked near the cap :(.

What's preferable? Spongy or stiffer? Do cigars HAVE to be spongy to be at right moisture? That's what my local shop owner suggested - sponginess.

And now, a concern. Cellos my friends, do they not prevent the exchange of moisture significantly? After all, it prevents marriage, so it must prevent the atmosphere from mixing? ? ? I have spongy and stiff cello'd cigars. Aren't my stiffer ones destined to be dried out, while the spongy to be forever too moist to smoke?