I've been working with animals for a very long time. Maybe one of these ideas will work for you: 1. Uncrinkled sheet of heavy aluminum foil - cats hate the sound 2. Upside-down mouse traps under a little newspaper or tea towel is best, but not necessary. They fly into the air & scare the crap out of the cat. UPSIDE-DOWN ONLY for obvious reasons. 3. Carpet tack strips - nasty points aren't nice to step on 4. Ssscat brand spray head goes on canned air & uses infrared sensor to spray air when cat is near - sound alone works, but for stubborn cats, you can point it at them. 5. Set a shallow dish or lids of water on soil surface - cats hate wet feet. Add rubbing alcohol for unpleasant odor and sensation in eyes & nose. 6. Rolled up balls of masking or duct tape - even more annoying to have stuck to them than just double-stick tape. Tape balls stick and follow them around. Only trouble is the cat might pee somewhere else in its panic to remove attacking tape balls. 7. Bamboo skewers or dowels stuck into soil to form a fence, or stuck at all different angles so they're very uncomfortable to squat or walk in. Bag of 100 for $2 in Walmart kitchen isle 8. Scat Mat gives static-like shock - from Foster & Smith or any online pet store, maybe even PetSmart. 9. Infrared-triggered noise maker. Some are sold for this, but one of those cheap infrared doorbells or buzzers from Amazon that little shops use instead of a bell on the door will only cost $5-$10 & is good enough for most cats. Will also alert you to bad behavior so you can squirt kitty if noise doesn't do the trick. Soak some corn starch in Bitter Apple, Bitter Lime, Fooey (best) or other bitter product. Let dry. INSIDE A SEALED BAG, break it back into powder. Put 1/4" corn starch on soil surface & top with thin layer of horrible, bitter powder. When cat disturbs powder, bitterness gets in mouth & nose & (s)he will never go back. Save this as absolute last resort because it is unspeakably horrible. It works, but you can't avoid enjoying a bit of it yourself while making and cleaning it up, and when the cat disturbs it and later tracks it around the house. Every now & then some tiny bit will waft up from somewhere and you'll be gagging and spitting for half an hour. Your cat might also not want to bathe itself when it gets the horrible, bitter crap in its fur. Trust me, every other option is better than this one. For details, more help, or more ideas, email me through the site.

#1 - needs a bigger pot #2 needs much smaller pot - remember pot diameter - 1/3 of the leaves diameter #3 bad soil - probably it is your repotting - the soil on #4 and 5 looks OK. nothing really bad on ##4,5,6 - some varieties hug the pots unless supported. #4 has some mechanical damage and a bad leaf - remove it. Do you use fertilizer? Get the one that is designated for AVs and use 1/8 of a teaspoon per gallon every watering. Watering - water when the pot gets light and remove the run off in 15 min. Do not overwater #3, this is the one that can croak - it looks sad - either from repotting - or from rot from overwatering. Hard to tell. If it is rot - it is a goner, if it is stressed from repotting - it will recover. #1 brown leaves - probably needs fertilizer. I woud say - leach the soil - sometimes old soil gets salty or acid - run water through it, let it dry - and start using fertilizer - ratio above. Stop stressing - and either read whatever you can find - on this site, on AVSA site, on Rachelsreflections.org site, get a book in a library - or best of all - get yourself a buddy who can show you the ropes. Check on AVSA.org affiliate list if there is a club near you - and contact them. If there is somebody who lives near you - ask this person for help, show and tell - AV people are very generous with advice - and mostly are the nicest people of the town. Good Luck irina

thanks for your answers, during the time they'll be left to harden the cut part should I spray the main body with water (and if yes how soon) or is it not necessary? climate here is kinda rainy for the next days with temperature highs around 65-68 and lows around 49-53. I guess they won't need any water with all that humidity for the moment... when you say room humidity what do you mean exactly? just spray some water on the topsoil once a week? more than that? less? and when they lie for those 2 weeks should they be in the shade or direct sun? (went and got 7 more cuttings so now I have an army of 11!) thanks!

Mtn, I needed that laugh! Are those napkins? I sure like them. Lobby, living in the country, I knew what happened when I read your second sentence. But a bear? Cyn, not sure what your issues are with Amazon but this is the first time it's ever happened to me and I've been ordering gift cards from them for years. The reason I buy from them when I can is because it saves time and is convenient. Their gift cards come faster than ordering them from the master card website. As I said up top, the mass craziness of the past week is the first time it's ever happened. Have you ever driven in wheat or farm country? If you you'll see how far the homes are from each other. Because it's Christmas time, they need extra drivers to cover many miles, and they are in a hurry because of that. Gigi, I had to laugh because I can relate, or DS can. That's just careless. Did you report them? DS's driveway is similar. Because it's hard to backup for delivery trucks we added a gravel drive around the green house so anyone can either park there, deliver, and leave, or back into so they can turn around. The ground was wet when UPS delivered a package & and drove on nice gravel around the green house like a good boy, then drove into the grass and sunk. Had to call another UPS truck to get the other packages so they could be delivered. These guys need to slow down is all, but they have way too many deliveries to make.