repotted my beloved N. Campanulata
 

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trying out on new thing, aquarium pebble stone, the bottom of it is some construction stone, entire idea is to have a more airy medium for it

after a week, most old leaves turns black from the edge...I guess it's over watering as I've been watering it on daily basis...hopefully it does survive and grow well

Re: repotted my beloved N. Campanulata
 

IMHO, that is WAYYYYY too dry for a nep. Aquarium stones are very smooth and hold basically zero water. If you want to use a particulate medium instead of sphagnum, I suggest perlite, diatomite, LECA (expanded clay balls) instead.

Re: repotted my beloved N. Campanulata
 

I agree with paphioboy, aquarium stones just let water flow through :spinning:

Re: repotted my beloved N. Campanulata
 

yet it already show signs of over watering when I only water once a day with very little water...

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Wow it's a weird plant indeed lol Maybe it needs more light and humidity?

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Black edges on leaves may not be a symptom of over-watering. Could be dehydration and low humidity too. Some species like bicalcarata are notorious for leaves suddenly turning black when humidity drops all off a sudden. IMHO, please change the medium before you lose your plant. Even epiphytes will not thrive in a medium of aquarium stone...

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If you want airy medium, try any of those that I have suggested. Or charcoal and fernroot. These can absorb some water and give it up to the roots slowly. I plant my northiana (which has similar cultural requirements to campanulata - lowland, limestone grower, exposed location) in burnt earth. It is growing well.

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thanks for the info, burn soil has a long term prob for me, at the beginning, it's all well, after around a year, the plant will slowly show signs of prob, maybe I'll just modify the current one...mix it with some sphagnum moss

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Cway,

I think the stone might have crushed some of your campa root judging by the size of it. You should get lighter material as your media. For my N.northiana, i'm using a mixture of sm and crushed coral bits used for aquarium filtrations. Coupled that with coffee treats, my N.northiana is growing quite well.

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nice, what about coffee treatment?

for my place, I have a northiana in pure burn soil(big pieces), once I watered it, it will remain wet for a long time, which is around 5 days, causes the old leaves to have same effect of my repotted n. campanulata, after reducing watering, it shows sign of recovering, but pitchering inconsistently as some times it does grow 1 cm pitcher, some times none...