When my direct-seeded Cardinal Climber first started growing, I gave it a
standard 3/4" wide, 4 foot tall wooden stake to climb up on. Silly me.
It twined nicely around the stake several times and took all of a week to climb up to the top and then started waving
its stem flag at me, obviously needing more -- much more. So I went out a
bought a wooden latticework trellis, about 6 feet high and 2 feet wide.
But the plant seems to be having a harder time twining around this, and I wonder if it's because the individual vertical and horizontal slats are about 1 1/2", much
wider than the stake. One of the stems completely wound
around itself in a highly convoluted fashion, possibly to compensate for
not being able to easily twine around the wide 1 1/2" flats?

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

I have a morning glory climbing up a metal trellis of very thin metal and it twines up that very readily.

Thanks.