Hi everyone,has anyone grown adriatic jh successfully
in high humidity,rainy conditions? All my 1st year adr.
figs are severely splitting.Should this be a keeper for
southern la.climate?
Thanks,Geno

I'm in Pa. and it will sometimes split here.

Kubota1,thanks your response.

I had some splits the first year or 2. That was over 10 years ago, can't remember the last time I saw JH split.

Thanks KK,I know this ones been around awhile but its
my first.And a graft thats put out quite a few figs.Im hopeing
it will be a 1or2 year thing as well.Much anticipated

Geno I finally got tired of watching hundreds and hundreds of mine split. They'd split way before being ripe. In 5 or 6 years that I had my tree it probably produced a few thousand figs but I only got to eat about a dozen. I dug it out the ground a few months ago. I don't recommend it for the deep South, at least in my part of South La.
"gene"

Gene ,thanks that is what mine are doing .The figs are still hard and splitting.
I have one tree thats getting big and hate to see it go ,but will give it another year . I'll also try strawberry verte
and battaglia green next year.

KK -- Maybe the difference is amount of water.  Am I right assuming that you are not overly generous watering?  An in-ground plant in Louisiana will get very wet.  

FWIW, I've observed that my potted JHAs use way less water than my potted LSU varieties.  Maybe it reflects differences in the vigor of the root growth.  But for now I'm assuming that the LSU varieties transpire water from the leaves faster.  I know that the LSU figs were bred to tolerate wet conditions.  Maybe JHA is better adapted to dry conditions.  I guessing that, given excess water, it doesn't lose it so readily from the leaves, so the water goes to the fruit.