TREE IS TAKEN ALREADY, THANKS!!

I've been generally unhappy with the rain (in)tolerance of my 2~3 year old Sal's Corleone, which is about 6'-7' tall and a trunk about as big around as a cardboard toilet paper tube. 

To date, like Salem Dark, this variety it has consistently split any ripening fruit on the tree with the slightest bit of watering or rain that comes within 1-2 weeks prior to fruit being fully ripe.  Rather than cut this up into chunks and send it around to other folks, I thought I might offer it up to one of the regulars nearby that may be interested. 

Eden13?  Heymikey?  Strudeldog?  Newnandawg?   First dibs go to Eden13 or Strudeldog, anyone else is welcome to jump on it. 

To be clear, I'm willing to give this tree to anyone that's a regular F4F participant - by that, I mean I want to hook up anyone that joined more than a few months ago and has improved this forum by posting and sharing a bit.... assuming you live within 30-45 minutes of Atlanta for easy pick up for delivery. 

Otherwise, I'm going to chop it up at end of season and send cuttings around.

I am certainly interested.

Mike

I am interested Jason.

Hey Jason, I truly feel your pain!  I picked these last week before the rains hit!  My tree is 8' tall and just yesterday I removed about 3 lbs of figs that were spoil.

The tree is spoken for.  Thanks for being part of an awesome community, y'all.

Wow, I don't feel to alone now. I have a sals c for the second year. This year the fruits swelled up so large and split in half way before they even began to change color to red.

Dennis, your experience looks very similar to mine.  I think this tree would do very well if it were in a self-irrigating container like what Bill Muzychko @ Bill's Figs has (see: http://figs4fun.com/bills_figs.html ) , or if the root zone/root plate had plastic over it during the weeks of ripening to prevent overwatering conditions.  If you can manage to get ripe fruit like what you have, the inside is beautiful, and this fig is about 20% larger than Sal's (EL/Gene) with a similar (less tart/raspberry) flavor.

Well, I've had the best of luck with Sal's Corleone and Sicilian Red this season. Both are first year in-ground trees. We've had the wettest summer in the last 10 years and there has been little to no cracking and no souring. Yes, the taste is a little bland because of all the rain but that only gives me hope for next year when it will be drier. On the other hand, Hardy Chicago, just a few dozen feet away from Sal's has been perfect. 

PS:
Jason, when will you be posting pictures and stories of your fig trip to Turkey? 

Man, I would love to share pics of my Turkey trip, but those are at home (later).  Sadly, I won't have a lot of figs to post, there were too many to shoot when we finally found them and none were overly interesting to me, except ones I found at market which resembled Violette Soleis, but I failed to find a mother tree.  Lots of green figs there, not much dark (not where we were).  More on that later, Frank!

On the topic of split versus not split, it may have a lot of bearing on how well your soil drains (i.e. overall irrigation).  So, for Dom, who is using self-watering containers with an overflow (I think?) he is probably getting more evenly watered.  Frank, for you, if they're in-ground, maybe you're more loamy-soiled in your neck of Tallahassee?  I'm using regular potting soil in stock flimsy pots with no special irrigation method - if my pots get overwatered, whatever doesn't pass out of the hole in the pot gets to the tree.... and some of my trees are rooted right out of the pot, into a raised bed, which tends to hold water also ... so ....