Plants and Ingredients respawning

[Cropto]

I know that plants and ores and so on have a respawn time of a couple of weeks to a month.
But since I picked the blue mountain flowers and all those ingredients around Whiterun, they've yet to respawn for the first time. And I have played for nearly 80 hours on this account.

Does anyone know if you can manually respawn the ingredients through console or something? 'Cause I visit Whiterun quite often (as I heard that stuff only respawns when not being visited for some time?!) and if so, I won't ever see any flowers again in this area :P

Any help would be hot!

[Roscaria]

I've played over 200 hours with Skyrim and never had a problem with flowers respawning around Whiterun. Are you spending any time sleeping or just playing nonstop?

There are plenty of flowers all along the roadsides, try taking a walk/run down the road. Some flowers are hard to see if you are travelling fast or in dim light. Take a cart ride to another town and check out their flora. Solitude is a good town as it has lots of flowers actually in the city itself.

[Cropto]

Trust me, I walk all over skyrim to get my ingredients. My stacks are completely full! (Fast travel is for female kitties :P) Lol, why can't I say pussiies xd
I do sleep at night from time to time (if I don't change into a werewolf) but how would that cause any problems? The number of days that have passed is around 34 at the moment...

[Roscaria]

That's really wierd. Have you got any mods that affect the plant life?

[shadows]

Has your map updated at all during the time you have been playing? If not try updating the map by doing a quest.

[Cropto]

Yeah, but graphical ones only. But what did you say about sleeping? Does that affect anything in any way? 'Cause I'm playing Skyrim like a role-play at the moment, so I do sleep at times when people normally sleep and stuff like that...

And what about the cell only reseting when you don't visit it for a week or so... is that really true? Does it work that way?

[Cropto]

Map updated like, you found a new location to go to via quest? Then yes, as I said: role-play, so I've been doing all sorts of quests!

[Roscaria]

There is some question about how long it takes for plants to respawn. According to some comments it can take anywhere between 7-30 days.

If you really need some ingredients I find it simpler just to do quests/favourrs for the Alchemist, then they let you help yourself to their stock with a few exceptions.

I think sleeping only effects the time frame, so you are not as aware of waiting for the plants to regrow.

[Cropto]

Well luckily for me its only around Whiterun that the plants still have to respawn. Rather annoying though to see all those empty bushes around. But I think in the other holds the ingredients did respawn after some time.
Can't say for sure for everything as the route to Whiterun is a single one (the path south of it) and the routes I take to the other holds are from different directions everytime, so different flaura and such if you get what I mean (its not the same spot over and over again that I pass)

But yeah, I have yet to see them respawn around Whiterun... Guess I can just hang around in the other holds and then visit Whiterun after a week or so to see what happens.

[Mad-Bad-Mitch]

I find whiterun spawns quite nice for me, even the nernroot under the bridge by the honeymead place comes back :)

[Cropto]

Nirnroot grows back for me all over Skyrim, so I have no problem with those ^^