This Sommer was long hot,and dry here:
Any cultivar that have a problem it will show now:
Too late to ripe,splitting or souring at first little rain,not productive,etc .
If any of the above this Sommer it will be worse in a cold rainy Sommer,Soooo?
It goes in the discarding pile as you can see.
Sooner or later I will trade or sell,cuttings from my trees ,and I will fill guilty to spread or sell a bad cultivar.
So here is how I try to corect my inventory!
So should anyone of us instead in,continuing, perpetuating bad cultivars.
If it spoils here it will spoil in your climate sooner or later.

What a sad picture.

Herman, I have similar issues. Will be getting rid of some.

My intention is to let these die so no spreading is possible because they have faults,and that is why I discard.
I allready had another Bunch I discarded ,and someone wanted them,and later I did not fill good about letting them have it because they might later sell plants from those figs and so perpetuate bad cultivars.
So no ,i do not want to give them to anybody from now on,I discarded them for a reason,and so let them die.
I allready wasted a lot of work growing and taking care of them,and do not want anybody else grow them for for years and then work vcery hard to dig them out of the ground,because at 4 years they do have a very strong large root.

Herman, my AdrinA died. Hence if they are by any chance AdrinA variant you are getting rid, I would sure like to propagate one via cuttings. You can email me privately. Thanks.

Herman,
I understand your feeling about discarded trees.
They will be destroyed today.
They will not be part of any trials in southern New Jersey.
I apologies for causing you bad feelings about giving away the trees.
You are still my mentor and master fig tree identifier.
Al

Sue has a good point.

Also, having had the coolest summer since Herbert Hoover, I learned that some figs actually seem to do better in a cooler climate, some a lot worse, and some had no difference. E.g. Vernino was 6-8 weeks earlier, even Celestes lacked good sweetness and flavor, and Atreano OR was still first to ripen.

Dilema!  I agree with both Herman and Sue.
Now, I have a Capela which is a good fig plant. I intend to keep it. However, when it is in the ripening process and rain comes then in a day or two it opens up like a rose or busts from inside. It did not sour though in my case. It is a known cultivar and if I ever wanted to get rid of it (no plan though) there may be some place where someone could have been more happy with it. And it is Capela and it will always be there so one more will not make difference.
If it was an unknown type with unsatisfactory performance then I will surely junk it.

Ottawan, baby the Slocan(Longue d'Aout). It beats Stella & Capelas in terms of flavor in my zone. Just had a comparison at Michael's place last Saturday.