You will notice after your locks have been really nice and formed for a good year or so, that some of your locks are suddenly starting to grow together into weird branching jumbo-dreads. If they are attaching themselves to other locks, like three growing into one big one, you can either rip or cut them apart. Other than that, just make an effort to separate them from each other every day, like comb them with your fingers, etc., esp. underneath your hair, close to your neck.