I forgot that Disocactus is being used now. It also appears that the habit of yours is not uncharacteristic - it is probably the straight D. phyllanthoides. True Epiphyllum tend to be nocturnal flowering and white. The name Epicactus has been come up with for the many hybrid orchid cacti involving multiple genera. Here is a link that might be useful: Bing Pictures of Disocactus phyllanthoides This post was edited by bboy on Mon, May 5, 14 at 13:38

I wanted to thank everyone for their help. All in all, i got 2 survivors from all the cuttings. If i could do it again, i think I would have gotten maybe 4 or 6, but hey, that's what its all about, learning. I have come upon a problem though. I am just not seeing any new growth. Back when i took the cuttings they had flower buds. I removed the buds so they could focus on rooting. Once they were rooted well, and things started to get going, i moved the two cuttings that did well into one pot containing gritty mix. A few months back, they tried to set buds again. I removed all but one, i should have taken it off too, but it got huge fast, and bloomed with a single beautiful bloom. It did this on the anniversary of the death of the person to whom it belong, so there was as feeling of symbolic significance to the bloom. Looking back, this probably drained the one plant of energy it really needed to channel into making pads. The long of the short of this post is, i wonder what I could be doing wrong to keep them from producing new pads? They are in a southern window, in the dappled shade of weeping figs and elephant bush. This area has constant air movement from a ceiling fan on low. I user FP and PT, 1/4 tsp every watering of each, though recently i moved up to 1.5 tsp on the FP. I lightly flush with every watering. My only idea is that i used DA instead of turface in this mix, which could have my PH a bit high, but i don't think these a fussy about that. Please let me know what you think! Photo taken today Photo of the single bloom from april PS: The plant on the right in the first picture is actually the really red one from my original post. It greened up as soon as i started feeding with FP. Must have been a nutrient deficiency. The plants had been in the same soil for probably a decade without re-potting and most likely without any fertilization.

Oh wow! It definitely is Easter Cactus! Thanks for your responses. And it appears after further research, I may actually own Thanksgiving Cactus rather than Christmas Cactus (In the first picture, you can see the plant to the right of the Easter Cactus). It's hard to say because everyone has their own opinion but if Thanksgiving Cactus is the one with pointy teeth, then that may be what it is.

socks, mine is not unmanageable it's just beautiful even at its size. It is an outside plant year-round on our 15 acres property, compared to other plants and trees we have it not so big in our eyes...