Sourcing apple summer budwood

I’m finishing up the last of my grafting right now (I’m in the Great White North, so I still have some time for that), but some of my scion wood orders fell through for various reasons. This leaves me with more rootstocks than I have scion wood for. It was recommended to me that I plant the extra root stocks, and consider doing some late summer budwood grafting.

Now, other than GRIN (there are some varieties there that I have some interest in, but I’m exploring options), where does one source budwood at that time of year? I’m assuming that it’s somewhat more fragile to ship and store than dormant scion?

I had good results with Summer wood from Fruitwood Nursery.

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