George - Jon does not have that fig GM#175 listed on his database, and I have tried searching the forum using google, and am not finding any relavent info on that fig.  Can you give some history and info on it?  I can imagine how good those must taste!

Hey Gorgi, thanks for posting the pictures of GM175- it looks like a great fig, how does it taste? I like the longer appearance to the neck

Here are a few photos of an unknown that I got at the fig festival at Bass's house last spring that was pretty good
 

George,
Thank you for posting those beautiful pictures. Nice to see what it might have in store for me. Those pics are just what we all need to see right now considering the cold winter we've had :-) ! Not to be greedy, but do you have any shots of the parent tree? 

I hope I get to see some more fruits on this one this summer. I know it's a bit early to say yet, but it seems to hint at being a very productive variety (hoping anyway). On my small tree, the fruit seemed to take a long time to ripen though. Could be due to it being a young tree or could be that it's going to be a late variety - or both - or neither (just too young to say right now). I'm hoping a little TLC will help it to get an earlier start this year. It's buried under a thick layer of mulch right now. 

Ed,
Aside from what you see in the pictures above and what I've just said about it, you may not find much more on this one yet. Guess it depends on whether George sent cuttings to other folks of this one. Also depends on if they succeeded at growing it or not. If I recall correctly, I didn't even get this one directly from George. Someone else had rec'd some of George's GM varieties and we ended up doing some swaps for varieties we each hadn't gotten yet = equitable trade ;) . All said & done I still only succeeded with 3 varieties out of all of them :( . Hopefully I'll have more to report later this year on the other two.

Sorry Bill,

I do not have a (digital) pic of the mother tree, but I have a clear one still in my (getting older) memory.
It lives on a tiny island in the Med Sea.
Very close to sea-water on public land and a sloping arid/rocky end.
Ground (wind pruned?) hugging (~10-12' wide dome and not more than ~zero-6' high) loaded&loaded with figs.
Fruit was rather small/medium size  (ref coin is ~1" diameter); possibly b/c of the growing conditions and/or amount of fruit.
A sole/lone fig tree growing within far-eyesight.
Not sure how it got there - was it planted there, or was it a result of some bird-poop?
I tend to 'lump' it with what is locally known as the (Black) 'Farkizzan' type-of-fig;
(yes, there are also White and Red variants).
If so, no caprification is required. Note the ribbed fruit skin.

I distributed twigs to quite a few fig-people.
I do not remember who - and I do not know which/what succeeded...
I do have a small one growing in a pot - and you are way ahead of me!

No problem George. It's interesting that you mention that the mother tree seemed to be "ground-hugging". I wonder if this is going to be a characteristic of the variety? I ask this because my little tree seems to be growing out in two directions sort of parallel to the ground (so far anyway). Made me think of how it might make a nice espalier growing like that.

It's also good to know that the momma tree is productive. I hope this proves true in our orchards as well. As you can see from the picture, mine did have quite a few fruit on it for its first year producing. Too bad most of them didn't have time to ripen though. Obviously caprification is not required though because a couple of them did get ripe enough to sample. Can't say the flavor stood out to me though. It is still a young tree.....

I'm glad to hear you have one still going too George. Maybe you should move it up the priority ladder a little. She seems like she may turn out to be a special one - I have high hopes for her anyway ;) .

Hopefully some of those other folks have secured this one in their collection also. Maybe I could start a separate thread just to ask who has it growing?  

Milena?

I thought it was GM #175.  Milena? I don't follow  - ??  Otherwise, I think it's a popular Slavic name :) .

Bill-see the thread about his twin granddaughters. He wants to name the fig after one :)

Melita?

G, please do not name your GM 175 after a 2nd rate coffee outfit (Melita aka Melitta).

I vote for MILENA!

Ooooohhh....  Now I follow :-) .

Why not George. Both are sweet and beautiful, right?   But only one of them has the ability to grow up and break hearts - lol!

George, I think that is a great move!
I do not see GM-175 in Jon's database. Possibly he has it but not recorded(he's not that busy,is he?), but someone should be sure he gets that into his collection.
And I am putting in a request for cuttings when someone gets a tree big enough to share some :)

I also think Milena is a great name for this fig

As of Feb 2017 GM#175 has been named "Gozo Gem".
https://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/gm175-8413645?pid=1294821656

Gorgi, 

 Many thanks for these wonderful introductions!

The 175 looks awesome and the 172 is, thank you.

 Mike