With all the pictures and all of the success stories with VdBs. Has anyone had problems with it in their environment? I grow it in pots here in Tampa and I find it is one of the better performers due to its ripening time. It ripens on either side of the rainy season here and it does not split badly if the rainy season is a little longer. Of the forty or so figs I have it is one of my favorites. It is one of the few that I grow multiples of.

Put me on your VdBs list then?! :)

Navillus no problems in the midwest , Illinois it does well and tastes excellent growing in large container.
I cheat.

Yes I had problems about 5 years ago,they split very bad ,open like a Flower,but in the last 4 years ,it was much better and it did not repeat it again.
It must have been the worse rainy conditions for ripening that year because George M,in North Jersey had the same problem that year.
Yet in the last 4 years in my place and George M place ,in North Jersey the Edible Landscaping specimen of Violette de Bordeaux was doing very well,so,yes it is possible to have a problem year but most years it is a very high quality fruit.

I also had bad splitting in 2010 due to high humidity. I'm southwest of Dieseler in StL. I have one misshapen breba this year that has started to dry up before it ripened due to our extreme heat of 105 plus temps. My poor fig has just baked this summer.

down here, VdB is doing great. more productive than others that i have. i've only gotten figs off the VdB last year and this year. no issue with splitting i keep it in the container. taste is very intense, even the breba. i'll post some pictures when the main crop is done. have huge one about to taken off the tree in few days.

Other than last year when we had record rainfall no problems. VDb has been a workhorse for me, good production, good taste, good grower. 

When I first moved to Arizona in 2010 a very experienced fig grower in this area told me that VDB was the best fig that he had found. He was very kind and gave me a VDB plant that had filled in a 5 gallon container. This fig is very productive and the quality of the fruit is excellent, especially if you let the fruit hang on the tree as long as possible. The only problem I've ever had with it is that in its first summer with me the tree showed signs of stress in really high heat and would ripen fruit that was dry under those conditions. This summer the tree is larger and more established and it no longer has that problem. This is a great fig.

My VdB had very bad fmv symptoms on the leaves and now I have several normal branches now on it, but I just planted it in ground this year so I am hoping for the best over winter.

Maybe its the climate, but have never, ever seen a VdB (Vista) split. When the weather is dry, they will almo0st dehydrate on the tree.