Please don't tell me not to 'worry' about it as I am not worried, just wondering what others experiences have been. So, like when I see people with dreadlocks down to their mid back are they all like 10+ years old?
do u seperate often enough that ypur not gathering all up at the roots?
i often feel like everytime i seperate i gain 1/4 to 1/2 inch just from seperation
but they should be growing round now really usualy 13 months about but yoir not much past that o it probly is starting to grow at a crawl at 1st but then will grow more normally soon after
technicaly its always been growing just shrinking faster so when its shrink as much as it can shrink akll it can do from there is grow and grow
it sounds like its shrunk to that point now and will be growing
pick 1 tight 1 as a sample dread
measure it every 30 days
thanks SE--good idea to pick one and measure it--also i may dye my hair and then i would be able to tell for sure 
Torie--yea, i am just now realizing this. i always thought if you started with long hair you had long dreadlocks, but now i realize that long MATURE dreadlocks are all like 5+ years old.
the longer the hair to start the more it shrinks ive seen waist length hair shrink to the ears
My dreadlocks are almost 8 months old and they're going through shrinkage but just recently a lady I work with said she thought my dreadlocks looked like they were getting longer. Not sure if it's true or if she was just trying to make me feel better about my short dreadlocks but I do feel like they are slowly but surely gaining some length to them haha.
