Learning about the Intelligence of Seeds to Survive Harsh Mediterranean Landscapes

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:01]Welcome to the Svirte del Molino farm.

[00:00:04]Andalusia, Spain.

[00:00:09]Let's look what is happening with our seeds.

[00:00:15]This is our seed planting setup.

[00:00:21]I feel far from confident to say I know what I'm doing.

[00:00:28]Um but I'm happy.

[00:00:31]My only failure in life is not to try.

[00:00:36]And that one I don't suffer of.

[00:00:41]I just recognize this one.

[00:00:44]This is the pine tree.

[00:00:48]With the papaya, honey locust, jacaranda.

[00:01:00]Here we have the hackberry.

[00:01:03]And then the catalpa.

[00:01:08]Some vachellia karroo.

[00:01:13]Tipuana tipu.

[00:01:18]More vachellia karroo.

[00:01:26]And then might be a guava.

[00:01:30]And then lots of nothing.

[00:01:34]And this is farmers plants.

[00:01:39]Tomato and squash and things I don't know.

[00:01:45]And here we have things we got seeds from Southern California.

[00:01:55]And this is the wisteria.

[00:01:59]And lots of nothing.

[00:02:03]Sandbox.

[00:02:09]A lot of things hanging in there.

[00:02:15]The asparagus growing wild. Yeah.

[00:02:20]Salix, the willow.

[00:02:25]And this is the quince. And then as always the Paulownia doing well.

[00:02:36]And here I have a lot of gooseberries.

[00:02:40]And this is the Grevillea.

[00:02:46]And the Chinese plum.

[00:02:52]And then the first time a lot of thingy is coming up.

[00:02:57]I wondered what happened.

[00:03:01]Here in the root air pruning sandbox.

[00:03:09]Vachellia karroo as always.

[00:03:13]And then some some some some love tree.

[00:03:29]And then the honey locust.

[00:03:37]And then I don't know.

[00:03:44]Here is a lot of oaks and chestnuts from the rest of Europe that was sent to me.

[00:03:59]And my own creation of peach pips into plants.

[00:04:09]One sneaked up the other day. Snugged up the other day.

[00:04:23]This is the second stage out of the wind dappled shade.

[00:04:31]Trying to grow things.

[00:04:34]And these are all goji berries. I pruned it. I didn't know it was part of the tomato uh potato nightshade family. So you have to guide it.

[00:04:51]And that was just all over the floor, the earth.

[00:04:58]So I pruned it and I put some of them in here.

[00:05:04]And then we have lots of individuals.

[00:05:08]Again, honey locust doing well.

[00:05:14]This is the aloe.

[00:05:18]And this is the dog. Hello doggy.

[00:05:24]So uh this is what the goji berry happens to it after a few days in the pot.

[00:05:38]The last 2 weeks we have lots of clouds overcast regularly but no rain.

[00:05:49]Some uh splashes of light like now but it's not good enough to charge the batteries of the uh fed from the solar panels.

[00:06:02]Anyway, I made this just to sit down on my marble table.

[00:06:12]And uh appreciate the view.

[00:06:20]Here at the far end of the dog run.

[00:06:24]Uh it was just dust.

[00:06:28]So I put up this fence >> [snorts] >> just to see what happens when there is no dog traffic.

[00:06:40]And also wanted to see if an acorn will sprout.

[00:06:46]But uh lots of the normal stuff.

[00:06:50]But no acorn.

[00:06:59]This is the uh middle creek distribution pond.

[00:07:04]It's almost full.

[00:07:06]I'm not extracting any water from the uh qanat system.

[00:07:16]And I made this.

[00:07:23]And therefore a lot of water down here.

[00:07:39]And this one is rising as well.

[00:07:44]I have inoculated the other pond several times with all these um aquatic plants.

[00:07:57]But uh nothing comes from it.

[00:08:04]Oleanders producing its flowers.

[00:08:16]Till next time.