CYPRESS trees have ARRIVED

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CYPRESS trees have ARRIVED

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This video is part of an ongoing series - like a vlog - about our project aiming to RESTORE soil fertility in Valle de los Pedroches in Andalusia, Spain.
We are located in a landscape called Dehesa in Spanish. It is like an oak savanna and is said to be very biodiverse. However, much of it has been overgrazed and the yearly drought of 6 months with NO RAIN makes recovery difficult. Many good practices from other climate zones with frequent rainfall DO NOT WORK here and have contributed to the bad situation in the past.
First and foremost we are restoring soil fertility and DO NOT AIM to deliver a product into any market at this time. We are not doing agriculture or ranching in order to produce something and turn a profit. We see PROFITABILITY as an OUTCOME that will emerge ONCE we have restored the land.
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@bagbroch9339 2 ай бұрын

The best channel on KZfaq

@NellSaftic 2 ай бұрын

Love ❤️ your videos Keep them coming 👍👍👍

@Chordially 2 ай бұрын

If you use your little machine to collect some hay for your blind horse, can you double the benefit by managing to make some sort of "firebreak" lines in several of your zones ?

@peperillon 2 ай бұрын

Cyprus trees, very good.. it will grow like crazy and you will get a loooot of baby cyprus.

@Totial 2 ай бұрын

did you think about a water mill? Windmühle on german i think. Its very common here in Argentina to pump water to a tank where the cows can drink. Its a very good solution in the middle of nowhere. No electricity needed and the mills come with a self regulating system to avoid damage with too strong winds.

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

That's a good solution to provide drinking water to animals. However, we do not have that wind required and for irrigation it likely will not provide the flow/pressure easily.

@calvinjonesyoutube 2 ай бұрын

If you cant irrigate at night fair enough. But your evaporative losses from the ground will be far far higher than from a pond. Bulk water ( like a pot of paint) takes a long time to evaporate but spread it out on a surface and it dries fast. If you could get some cheap storage it would be a benefit. Maybe some expert will give you a quantitative answer as to the magnitude of said benefit.

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

My view is pretty pragmatic. I use what I have and monitor the moisture level. No guessing. It's based on continuous measuring. Then I just pump water there and as there are no ongoing payments and the pond fills itself I don't have to worry. Meaningful storage would have to be many m3 and that is quite expensive no matter what kind of storage it might be. The 4 sensors also report something interesting. 3 of the 4 sectors hold moisture a lot longer than the one that seems to dry out more quickly. But that one is also greener with plants that came up from seed already present.

@edwindegroot3235 2 ай бұрын

I hear you, burn diesel to irrigate…… where does that make sense!

@rm6857 2 ай бұрын

Batteries can be expensive, especially new one. I recommend to try use 2nd hand lead acid, they are almost for free. Or put water tank on hill or tower, and during day push water there, during night use gravity to let it flow down. Its basically battery too, for storing excess energy during day.

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

We need a flow in excess of 2300 liters peroxide hour and pressure of 6 bar

@rm6857 2 ай бұрын

@@ProjectGranjaCaimito understand you have big system. How many kw has that beast water pump(s) you use?

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

1000W usually

@Sdonasa 2 ай бұрын

Stephan, can you remind me? The cypress trees will be a windbreak for your paulownias right? Did your paulownias die without the windbreak? Or did they just suffer but live on? I'm currently growing paulownias from seed and have a place in mind. But i think there will also be chilly winds in that place in the winter. If they survive it is fine, but if they die.. it would be a waste.

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

Windbreak, yes. The Paulownias did not die but there is some damage. Doesn't matter for trees planted for chop and drop but it's going to be a problem when you want to grow them for wood. We have others in a more protected area and even without irrigation they do grow well. So we should create the windbreak first. Paulownias from seed can be invasive. We don't want to run that risk in this area but in general that's a normal thing to do. Our Paulownias are hybrids that can sustain -10C. The main issue was that they already made leaves and then the frost in early May killed those leaves.

@Sdonasa 2 ай бұрын

@@ProjectGranjaCaimito Thanks for the summary! I was planning on growing them as a sort of hedge during spring/summer, and then chop them in the winter for material. I have heard about Paulownias being invasive. I got these seeds from a tree in a town nearby. Since i (at least for now) do not plan on growing them for wood, i do not think they will get to flowering and seeding very quickly. I might plant a couple in other places just for the beauty. My finca already has a lot of established big oak tree (robles) so i do not think they will easily overtake everything. I must say that the seeds are quite sensitive. But with the enormous amount of seed that every flower produces, i can imaging the tree will spread. The town i got these seeds from is around 1200m in altitude, in the north of Granada city, so i think for (light) frost it should do pretty ok. I will first grow the trees in the nursery for this year. And plant them out next spring.

@Greengate777 2 ай бұрын

Do you think that vetiver likes it over there? It looks to me like it is sort of struggling. It is a very good and useful plant, but it may not fit in every place. Have you looked at alternatives to it?

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

We have a few places where it grows very well but of course it does need water. Vetiver can be useful due to the roots or for other purposes. I have a few ideas based on past experiments to solve the water problem in a way that is not traditional irrigation

@VanderlyndenJengold 2 ай бұрын

@@ProjectGranjaCaimito My single Paulownia tree isn't exactly thriving in my climate. Maybe it needs to establish itself, it hasn't been in for a year yet. I may name it after you as you inspired it's planting.

@exil-mann8306 2 ай бұрын

So you need a Cybertruck to irrigate your land at night ...😅

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

Send one over :-)

@peperillon 2 ай бұрын

You may want to add fertilizer every few month even mineral fertilizer. Rationale is to help the grow of biomass before the patch is autonomous: you wasn't able to put mulch. You never refered to us with other plantation of miazaki plantation with the same mix but older. Last, as you don't have mulch i want to know what you will do to prevent grass plant to shade the plantation next year. Water during the day, i don't think it realy mater. If this patch of land is the last green one, you will attract wild life and probably unwanted one.

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

In the case of Miyawaki the idea is that the forest feeds itself. That's what I have been told. I just found www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/publications/effectiveness-of-the-miyawaki-method-in-mediterranean-forest-restoration-programs Maybe that helps for further reading. You say "prevent grass plant to shade the plantation next year". The competition amongst the planted species is supposed to take care of that. We will have to wait and see.

@VanderlyndenJengold 2 ай бұрын

@@ProjectGranjaCaimito If you like I also have plenty of suggestions for how to spend your money! 🙂 I use organic fertilisers on my vegetable patch yet that's only around 100 square metres.

@VanderlyndenJengold 2 ай бұрын

Plus, I require immediate results.

@hotbit7327 2 ай бұрын

The problem is it's not a scientifically proven method in Europe, but it's fashionable. There are plenty of 'success' stories of some like 3-year-old plantations of Miyawaki forest, but only ONE scientific paper of ~11-year-old one from Sardinia. I've read the paper, and I didn't find evidence for it to be any better than a sparse plantation. My conclusion is: 1. you plant some 50 thousand trees per hectare, after 10-20 years some (

@peperillon 2 ай бұрын

@@hotbit7327 i like your suggestion

@user-xr5qc3rk5h 2 ай бұрын

The evaporation doesnt matter....okay sure 😂

@ProjectGranjaCaimito 2 ай бұрын

Well... It depends on the context. Of course there IS evaporation. The question is if it's going to be a problem or not

@peperillon 2 ай бұрын

I've found ressources telling trees are able to manage humidity in the air to condensate it back by altering the temperature. So one humidity source may not so wrong.

@steverapisura5418 2 ай бұрын

@@peperillon ...hence the Miyawaki planting!