Guild Wars 2

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere…I tried searching for “gathering” and found hundreds of threads, but couldn’t find this referenced anywhere.

I remember before launch one of the devs mentioning that there are plant “farms” in each explorable map, which are clusters of roughly 7 gathering nodes for a single kind of vegetable in close proximity. I have found several of these in game (strawberries in Snowden Drifts, lettuce in Queensdale, the floating farm in Metrica Province, etc.).

My question is this: perhaps 2-3 real world days ago, one of my characters gathered all of the lettuce nodes in the field outside of Beetletun. Ever since then, NONE of my characters have been able to gather any of those nodes again. Now, I understand that there are respawn timers on gathering nodes, but I thought that (a) the respawn times were typically measured in hours, not days, and (b) the respawns were character-specific, not account specific.

Obviously I may be misunderstanding how the respawns work, but it seems odd that none of my other characters have been able to gather lettuce again for multiple days of playing, despite lots of zoning in and out of the Queensdale map. Anyone have an explanation for this?