Want to see how your Christmas tree started out in life? This guy who goes by Boxlapse at YouTube bought a pine cone at the supermarket last year and decided to grow a stone pine tree (Pinus pinea) in a pot. This video is a time-lapse that covers 300 days of his experiment. As you can see, it rather dramatically went from a pine cone to a recognizable tree in less than a year. I was expecting a slight touch of tinsel to be added at the end, but I guess that might limit the shelf life of the video. Add six more years to this story, and you'll have the cut trees that are being sold for Christmas decorations right now. He says he is continuing the experiment, so we may see further growth of this same tree next year. -via Digg