Found some mold. Should I panic?

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Originally Posted by jjirons69

Bringing this back alive. Ordered some Party Serie D No.4s (10 pack). The box came in sealed from Apr 14. Excited to get a box with a little age on it. Opened it up to see mold. More mold than I've ever seen on cigars. Kinda looked like Andrew's OP pic, except a few tuffs were the size of a baby aspirin. I took some vodka and wiped them all down and they looked like nothing ever happened after I was done. My only concern is a couple of them had mold growing at the foot edge. Not in the foot area, but around the edge. It wiped off but I couldn't tell if any was inside the foot. Sure I could send them ALL the way back, but they did clean up well. Anybody else ever had it this bad and stuck it out and found out everything was fine? The inner foot was my only concern and judging as I did, that's why I decided to keep them and wipe them down.

Yes and yes.

Even had a few where I trimmed the foot about an 1/8 - 1/4". They smoked fine too.

Such being said, I do believe it's a crap shoot, Jamie. And here's why: I'm more concerned with the long term storage that lead to the mold, this is something we can't see. Mold can form on the surface of the cigar, or anything really, within a few days to a week under the right conditions. A cigar could be stored properly for years, then something happens and two weeks later it has a forest growing on it. You catch it, you wipe it off, let it dry a bit and it smokes fine. But a cigar stored improperly for years and slowly growing crap on it for ages might not fare as well, even if it has less mold overall.