I've had a few weird looking ones in the the past, that ended up producing big time by oct. It's like they were playing hooky. lol. I know what you mean though. I hate looking at runts myself. Makes the beautiful ones look bad. lolI pulled the 2 querkles because they had something going on with them and they weren't pulling out of it. This point in the season I'm not trying to screw around with trying to save them, so I am going to replace them.