Comparison of the evolution of small plants sown at home

Comparison of the evolution of small plants sown at home

Palma, Monday, July 6, 2026

This is the third time I've presented the small plants I've grown at home. The first was on December 18, 2025; the second on January 4, 2026, just half a month after the first. And this one is six months after the second.

The truth is, I started sowing plants from fruit seeds (orange, lemon, pear, apple, etc.) in 2024, but at first I didn't plan to keep track of their development. Later, I started taking photos, but without much careful record-keeping, and I've lost track of some of them.

From now on, I'll try to keep a more rigorous record. I'll start by posting photos of the square plants (same width as length).

I also don't know which plant is which, because, being quite restless, when I planted a seedling from a particular fruit, if it took too long to germinate, I would bury the seeds of another fruit in the soil, and when they germinated, I wouldn't know which of the two had sprouted. Similarly, on many occasions, I couldn't remember which seeds I had planted. But basically, oranges, lemons, apples, and pears.

The truth is that all the little plants, except PMA10, have survived at least one winter. Some have survived two. And, so far, none have died. PMA02 lost all its leaves in the winter of 2025; I thought it might have died, but the following spring it started to sprout leaves (very small at first, but they grew larger). Now, the one doing the worst is PMA01, the first plant I planted. It grew so beautiful that it became a houseplant to decorate the house. But months ago it lost many leaves that didn't grow back, and it went back to the gallery, and it might be the first one to die completely. When plants germinate, they do so by producing many stems and forming a thick canopy of leaves like PMA01, or by producing only one or two stems like PMA02; I imagine it depends on the number of seeds that germinate.

As I said, I don't know what fruit each plant produced. What I do know is that PMA06 is an apple or pear tree, and PMA07 is an orange tree, the kind you get for juice from Mercadona. These oranges don't usually have seeds, but I used the seeds from a batch that did. Next to the orange tree, and much larger, a plant sprouted in the same pot that I didn't recognize at first. When I realized it was a weed, I pulled it up. Curiously, despite being very large, it was very shallow and grew up very easily. I planted an apricot pit in pot PMA10, but it's been over a month and it's showing no signs of life.

I haven't found any other photos of PMA09 and PMA10 that would allow for comparison.