If it is growing out, not up, my guess is that there is not enough light for it so it is growing towards where the light is. Hall's honeysuckle should have no problem twining around that support.

Thanks for the reply.

The site gets about 8 hours of good strong sun. It is just in the shade during the early morning.

Anyone else have any suggestions about how to encourage the vine to attach and grow vertically?

Thanks.

I planted a coral honeysuckle this year and have it growing up a homemade trellis that has 12 inch vertical by 6 inch horizontal spaces. If I left the vine alone to grow how it wanted it would bush outward quite a bit. I wanted it to grow upward so I constantly tucked and weaved the stems back into themselves and the trellis. That worked pretty well.

Hall's honeysuckle is considered an undesirable invasive here (despite its heavenly scent!)...I have honeysuckle "pink lemonade" growing up a trellis and having no problem with it spreading out, although my trellis is not as tall as yours sounds to be.

Thanks everyone for the responses. My honeysuckle just doesn't seem to "twine" much and I have to keep training it, tucking it and the like. Is this true for you all as well? My trellis pieces are about the size of my thumb around the outside. What about yours? Should I just accept that honeysuckle is more "bushy" and not a great climber?

I am beginning to think that I have been spoiled by growing twining morning glories that would climb anything!

BTW I am in zone 5 where I have had no problem whatsoever with the MGs reseeding. They are very tame and manageable. I expected that the honeysuckle would have a little more fight than I have seen so far!

I'll second that Halls honeysuckle is invasive. I finally ripped out the section I planted along a low chain link fence (side of a dog run) because it was getting just too aggressive and thick to keep under control. The scent was nice and the hummingbirds and butterflies liked it, though. It likes to send out long runners to spread, which was a problem. Took me a while to root it out of the grape vine area, and it even spread to the veggie garden. If you cut it back, it forms a thicket of dead material, and I've read (and believe) that this can be a fire hazard.

When I find a less aggressive variety I might replant... somewhere.

i have several different vines, including hall's growing along my wooden fence. i'm an avid fisherman and have a lot of extra fishing line.

i run 30# mono fishing line in a crisscross fashion 3' to either side of the vine to help it grow up and out.