Sealed Box Storage?

**AllThingsWatches** · 08-06-2006, 11:18 PM

Hi all, I am new here and searched the forum but can't really find the answer I am looking for.

I have a humidor that is full of cigars and it works great.

Now I want to buy a box of 25 cigars but am wondering if I can leave them in the sealed box or should I take them out and place them in the humidor?

Can I store my sealed box of cigars for a long period of time? I don't want to open them just yet. Thanks so much!!!!

**mauied1101** · 08-06-2006, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by AllThingsWatches

Hi all, I am new here and searched the forum but can't really find the answer I am looking for.

I have a humidor that is full of cigars and it works great.

Now I want to buy a box of 25 cigars but am wondering if I can leave them in the sealed box or should I take them out and place them in the humidor?

Can I store my sealed box of cigars for a long period of time? I don't want to open them just yet. Thanks so much!!!!

Welcome to CigarSmokers.

A couple things depend on the answers to your questions...

If the sealed box if cigars have a humidipak in them, you can leave them in there for at least a couple months (the boxes will have a sticker if they have them - most Fuentes do).

If you have a larger (sealed) container like a cooler with a humidifcation unit that you can put the box of cigars in, you can leave the box in there indefinitely...

If you don't have a larger sealed container or if you don't have a humidipak in the box of cigars, you probably want to put it in the humidor.

Personally, I leave my cigars in the original boxes until I have 3-4 sticks left, in which I toss them into my desktop or a tupperware container in my coolidor.

Hope that helps.

**AllThingsWatches** · 08-07-2006, 12:26 AM

Great thanks for the welcome and reply!

I might just end up getting another humidor just for this box. It is a box of partagas D No.4 from Cuba. :)

**stjohnroe** · 08-07-2006, 05:33 AM

Go for a coolerdor, you wont regret it.

Welcome from the UK.

**ggiese** · 08-07-2006, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by AllThingsWatches

.... It is a box of partagas D No.4 from Cuba. :)

Are you sure???

**cls515** · 08-07-2006, 09:38 AM

if your humidor is large enough to hold the box, then you can just place the whole box in there. If you have a small humidor, take the cigars out and put them in the humidor. Bottom line, put the cigars in the humidor.

**Shelby07** · 08-07-2006, 01:09 PM

If the box is wrapped in plastic or cellophane, take the plastic wrap off of the box before storing. You can leave the cellophane wrappers on the cigars if they are individually wrapped.

**AllThingsWatches** · 08-08-2006, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by ggiese

Are you sure???

**mauied1101** · 08-08-2006, 02:47 AM

GG is actually the official sampler of the board. Any time there are any questions on ISOM sticks - he gets sent a couple to smoke - an "A" sample and a "B" sample - if you will. If he smokes the "A" sample and the taste and construction are similar to similar tolerances that he's had in the past, you've probably purchased the real deal. If the "A" sample tastes different - he moves onto the "B" sample to see if "A" was a fluke.

oh yeah...sorry about the explanatory