I almost tried that one because of the flower color but I opted for the slightly paler W. (E.) schmollii because of the tendency for having exposed tubers. I couldn't find info online if any Wilcoxia are fragrant, but I assumed the white ones must be, at least. Is your poselgeri fragrant? When you say big pots, do you mean deep, or do you mean shallow-but-wide ? Dennis in Cincinnati On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Monica Swartz <eciton@utexas.edu> wrote: > I grow Wilcoxia (Echinocereus) poselgeri collected in S. TX. It needs big > pots for such a thin cactus because of the tuberous roots. Enormous purple > flowers, sometimes five at a time on the top of a stem smaller than your > little finger. It is sensitive to sucking insects so I always use a > systemic insecticide. Sometimes individual plants die in winter for no > apparent reason so it is good to keep propagating it from cuttings. Others > have reported this problem too. I suspect that older plants may fill their > pots with the tuberous roots and suffocate. One day I'll get around to > posting photos on the Wiki. monica > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >