I would love to be a Lowe's fig collector (I've already amassed a sizable orchard of $5-$10 fruit trees), but our store here in Zone 5b puts their fig rootlings (basically just a cutting with a few hair roots on it, potted up in a 1 gal trade nursery pot, which is technically only 0.66 gal) out in late Feb/early March. But then we get hit with a late hard freeze of single digit temps for 2-3 days (sometimes more), and of course those little plastic pots offer little to no protection. If only the associates would bring them indoors on a cart for a couple of days like they do their more tender perennials, but no...since there is usually no greenery on the stem at the time, the poor little fig rootlings are left out of doors to freeze solid as a rock. This has happened for the past three years in a row, with not a single survivor (per one associate who works there). You would think they would learn... :(