backcomb wet or dry

yea i guess i fucked up the front pretty good doing them semi wet when i started last week. wet hair seems to get bent and hold kinks so it looks mangled. yesterday i did some in the back after washing with apple cider vinegar +salt and letting it dry then the hair almost sectioned itsself. a few quick backcombs and they look way more like dreadlocks, smooth and straight with little frizz.
whats blowdrying do after the locks start to form? would it make them fatter, or would they come loose?

 

blowdrying dries them quicker, and makes them fuzzy =]

 

We like dry dreads ^^

I've noticed when I blunt my tips (I rub the tip in the palm of my hand opposite ways till it burns ) it really helps if I lick my palm a little, to make it ever so slightly damp, so there is a weeeny bit more friction for the hairs to knot

I Bc my hair really dry. But I think with the evidence above, I'd be confident in saying that the moment directly before you feel your hair drying is the ideal time to BC?

I dunno... Consider this:

A dry surface has barely any friction apart from the small amount of moisture on your finger (when you run your finger across it).

A wet surface has no friction at all when you run your finger over it.

When you wet a surface slightly, and run your finger over it, as the water is 1) absorbed into your finger and 2) slightly dries from the surface there is at least 3x more friction than the dry surface itself.

Try it If you keep running your finger, hard, over the damp surface eventually your finger will get hot because of the friction!! Yay for physics!!!

AND did you also notice that when drying your normal hair, your hair after it is wet but the moment before it got completely dry felt really strawish and weird and not smooth? I think that ust be the slight dampness creating friction

SO me and my sciencey mind have concluded thAT ever so slightly damp hair may be beneficial to the backcombing process

Athankyou, athankyou ^^