root maintance.
Dreads Hair and Scalp Health
Stop any maintenance. All that maintenance just damages your locks. Crocheting rips your hairs into smaller and smaller pieces. In time the hairs at the tip of your locks will not be connected at all to your scalp. They will be connected to other broken hairs attached to others and others until they finally attach to your scalp. This weakens your locks so much that they can snap off just from their own weight. Crocheting also over tightens your hairs and can cause traction alopecia. This will lead to baldness if continued. Crocheting, because it over tightens your hair so much, also traps more water inside for longer. It can cause molding and mildew since the water has nowhere to go.
Twisting, also causes traction alopecia. Every time you twist, you are ripping hairs out of the roots. Just a few at a time. But over time, you can twist a lock right off. Ripping those hairs out at the root will also just cause more loose hairs that you feel need to be maintained.
Root flipping is bad because it winds your hair around itself. Instead of it tangling and knotting, where there is some bounce andsponginess to your lock, this makes them taught and unable to move. They will have a constant weaved look that will never go away. it also weaken syour locks just like crocheting does.
Just let them be. There is no reason to fix the hair at your root. It has to be there. As your locks grow longer, the new growth will need something to tangle and knot to. That's where the loose hairs come in. If you were to control every hair, or even a lot of them, your new growth would have nothing to snag, and they would grow in thinner and thinner. Eventually, you'd have a thick lock attached to a very thin root system. They would not be able to sustain the weight, and will just fall off themselves.
Also, those loose hairs protect your scalp from getting sunburned. When you separate your locks, you don't want to do it all the way to your scalp. Just enough so, that the body of the locks are not attached. They should always, always, be in a constant state of semi combined at your scalp