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Thanks for the complments. I'm anxius to see what I get for growth the second season, if this is what it can do immediately after being collected. The great thing about honeysuckle is that you can collect them with no roots. The plant grows so quickly it just makes roots as quickly as it makes shoots. Early in the season I found that it suckered profusely, usually in clusters near the base. Nick Lenz says that in the first year you need to let these shoots grow a bit so the tree can make new roots, but after a short while they can come off. I started taking off the suckers when upper growth began to come in. I find now that it does not sucker much at all, just occasionally, I suppose because it has a lot of growth higher up.

This first picture is while it was still in the ground. The trunk leaning off to the left is the one I cut off. You can see the stub in the first picture I posted to the left at the base. The trunk had been slammed by a falling branch and was broken about 3 ft. up.