Scrappy things start out looking dinky.

Some scrappy things are alive; they can grow under their own power into something massive.

Some scrappy things are dead ends, just little odd things that never turn into anything else.

It's hard to tell the two apart, even for gardeners, at the beginning.

If you make a scrappy alive thing, at the beginning many people will say, "... that's it? That's the world changing thing?"

It's better to not have too much attention on it in that dinky phase, before it begins growing under its own power.