Dissecting cigars

[jiaguy]

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.

[bigsmoke]

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.

I have nto but if you tell me what to look for, I could look for that virus. CAn you really tell that much though?

[Shelby07]

I will sacrifice a full cigar to the dissection gods every once in a while just for educational purposes, and sometimes unroll a 1/2 smoked cigar for shits and grins, but usually I just toss them once they are dead.

I usually look for the burn characteristics. A sharp point in the center of the ash usually indicates that the roller used a full slower burning leaf in the center of the filler. Lots of stems in the foot before you light it could indicate chopped up floor sweepings.

[heftysmokes]

I like to smoke my cigars. If they taste good, I'm happy. If they don't taste good, I'm not happy.

[Shelby07]

I like to smoke my cigars. If they taste good, I'm happy. If they don't taste good, I'm not happy.

...and if you're happy, we're all happy!

[heftysmokes]

...and if you're happy, we're all happy!

That's right! Somebody FINALLY gets it!

[bigpoppapuff]

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.

no...

[drew_goring]

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.

Can't say I do. I prefer to let my sticks burn themselves out with dignity.

[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...