I would like to introduce some of my native honeysuckle Orange Honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa) into my yard. My first attempt was to just jam a chunk directly into the ground in early spring (hey, sometimes that works...). Fail. My next plan is to take cuttings and stick them in water with some willow twigs and see if I can get some roots. I've had good luck with ground layering for getting starts of my cultivated honeysuckles, but these wild guys are in the midst of brambles, climbing into aspen trees, so that isn't really an option. Any other ideas?

I never did get any response to this, so thought I'd bump it up and see if anyone can help. Per the database, propagation can be done by stem cuttings, which seems odd to me as they are hollow. Maybe if I use the very skinny ends and put them in water? I have one vine that is impossible to get to the base of, so ground layering won't work for me.

I read the cuttings should be mature wood from the current years growth at least 6" long. I would barely dampen some vermiculite with cooled down boiled water, dip the wood in rooting hormone and make a little green house out of a plastic bottle that is tall enough so the stem doesn't touch the sides.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Seems to me... it would make the most sense to get in there with pruners, chain saw, whatever it took and set nursery pots of soil down and layer the vine... the only tried and true technique I know of...

Yeah, maybe I'll put a bit more effort into it. If I am remembering correctly, the honeysuckle is twining up an aspen with blackberries at its feet. I actually don't mind snipping blackberries, for all their thorns, they trace back to relatively few canes. And I can just let them lay where they fall, eventually woods creatures do whatever they do with them. Or if I toss them in the road, the tractor eventually pushes them off somewhere. (I run a tight ship here...)

My search on that called it a shrub but I see it's actually a vining honeysuckle. In that case you can just take a sucker.

Those native coral honeysuckles just aren't that vigorous...

I think of Lonicera sempervirens when you say coral and I find many rooted sections long the ground. The Orange Honeysuckle looks very similar. Definitely worth a look. Anyway some advice from Plants for a Future website:
https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.as...

which seems to agree with Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Conservation in CO
https://www.wildflower.org/pla...

"Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. Stored seed requires 2 months cold stratification[113] and should be sown as soon as possible in a cold frame. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Cuttings of half-ripe wood, 7 - 10cm with or without a heel, July/August in a frame. Good percentage[78]. Cuttings of mature wood of the current season's growth, 15 - 20cm with or without a heel, November in a cold frame. Good percentage[78]. Layering in autumn[200]."