Training a climber.

Last year, I gave my mature Arthur Bell climber a brutal prune as it was only flowering several feet up.
It's growing well and I am trying to train it horizontally but the minute my back is turned it shoots up vertically from the end of the horizontal.
I was wondering if I cut off the growing tips would they shoot along the branches rather than reach for the skies .
If that wouldn't work, what might?

 

Oh your question sent my mind racing back to my O Level science classes and talk of geotropism and auxin.

Auxin and geotropism - Plant hormones - AQA - GCSE Biology (Single Science) Revision - AQA - BBC Bitesize

You won’t be able to stop your rose from reaching skywards. You’ll just have to keep tying it down to other things.

I have Arthur Bell. A beautiful rose. I just let him do his thing and he waves at me through the bedroom window.

 

Oh well. I'll just have to be vigilant. Anyway he's been envigorated by the pruning so he'll probably be half way up the garden by Christmas .

 

IIRC the hormones are concentrated in the tips of shoots, so pruning them off might help ....worth a try!

 

It won't do any harm @noisette47

 

About your avatar......any chance of posting a photo in 'Putting names to faces'? It cracks me up each time I see it but I'm losing all sense of reality here....

 

Sorry @noisette47 . I don't understand what you mean. Is that a thread?

 

It is/was Can't find it now...

 

Here it is Faces to Names 2024

I must have another look, yours is the one that makes me curious @noisette47!

 

But I really look like that! What are you suggesting?

 

Having said that, I've found you there. I'm there too.