Chris - would you be so kind to share a bit of knowledge of your fig tree?
Not sure what you mean by this specifically? Anyways, I purchased several varieties a few months back for trials here in the true tropics at around 300 ft. elevation. Among them are Celeste, kadota, black madeira, negronne, black mission, brown turkey, galbun, and san pietro.
They seem to enjoy full sun and constant moisture and wilt under the tropical heat when moisture is lacking. My figs that I planted out were potted for about 5 months prior. They are just getting accustomed to being in the ground and now showing growth spurts. Among the varieties that are fruiting in ground are: brown turkey, black madeira, galbun, and black mission if I'm not mistaken. The varieties fruiting in pot is my negronne and black madeira.
Most get full sun all day and some get slight shade in late afternoon due to their proximity to nearby trees.
Interestingly, my negronne has the most fruits of all the figs at the moment. My black madeira is the only fig I have which is visibly infected with fmv. Heavy doses of fertilizer have helped it overcome this and it is now growing in leaps and bounds.
This is my first time growing/fruiting all varieties except the brown turkey. I have had the brown turkey growing for almost a year and even if it is small, it is precocious here in the tropics. Due to our fast draining limestone soils in the north, splitting isn't a problem at all. Under the intense sunlight, they are quite sweet but turn a bit watery after very heavy rains.
All of them are young and under 3 ft tall at the moment. We don't have the fig wasp here or any comparable insect, as far as I'm aware, so pollination is almost certainly out of the question for those which require it. I haven't tried grafting them to a native fig either, but have heard positive results online.
I don't know.... Strangler fig rootstock would make for a monster fig tree I suppose....
Chris