Hi
As my family came from Georgia -city called Poti my grandfather always reminds me to visit the country where he came from... he says the figs in georgia were huge and succuluent unlike the ones he tastes nowdays--you know the story (his stories made mme drool).... probably immigrants all over the world eel the same when their grandfather telling them about the old fig trees in their yard before they immigrated.
while searching for the info aout georgian varieits i found a good story about a UC guy that tries to get georgian varieites..

enjoy

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The-Great-Georgian-Fruit-Hunt.html?c=y&page=1

Elin,

You had me for a second there. Several of us on here reside in the U.S. state of Georgia, and in the first few words I was thinking  where is Poti.  Then it became apparent you were refering to the ex-Soviet block country. Oh well no local treasure for me, but a nice article.  Not the first time I have been confused. A few years ago when I woke and saw on the news the Russians had invaded Georgia I crawled in my basement bunker for 3 months:}

:) nice one, btw my sister used to live in Atlanta Georgia  and she told me alot of ex soviet-georgian immigrants live there.

maybe they brought some cuttings with them you can find on fences and ask around about their origins.

anyhow could be putin was looking for some fig cuttings for himself...

Neat article. I like the one that's closest to the knife.