If your soil is brick-like, you'll likely need to soak the whole rootball for a while, to help soften up that old soil so you can break it all apart & crumble off every last bit of it. The plant will be fine, they're pretty tough survivors even tho' they may not look it. I make a mix of roughly 1/3 each Potting (or African Violet) soil, Perlite & ReptiBark (from the Pet Store), drains well to allow for deep watering. I'd repot it all dry, wait a day & then water well.

fine-grade Orchid Bark (Fir or Pine bark), with a little perlite and a pinch of potting mix. Josh

Maybe the Epi forum can help you, you might try posting this there. Epis can be hard to ID from the start, w/out a picture, maybe they'd be able to guess better.

I once did this between 2 diff. plants I had. I used a very small artist's paintbrush to take pollen from one plant & insert it into the flowers of the other. It resulted in ONE fruit, sometimes called an 'apple'. Looked like a smallish round berry, which over time reddened into ripeness. Mind you, that reddened berry held on to the plant for abt 1 year, at which point I removed it. I broke it open & spread the jelly-like contents, full of seeds onto a paper towel & let it dry out a bit to separate the seeds from the mucilaginous gook around them. I did try to pot them up, but I think the seeds dried out too fast & nothing came of it. The tricky part to doing this is to have several plants in bloom at the same time. Now I only have one mature plant, so I can't try it again. If you do try it, you might try doing it several times a day, at diff. times, say both morning & night to improve the odds of success. Good luck w/ it!