I need information - when grafting onto rootstock, do you pot up the rootstock and get it growing or what? my experience has been with pecans - grafting after growth starts, and chip budding roses, again a growing plant. Wish I could attend the class but age and distance preclude that.
Depends entirely on what kind of grafting you want to do, if you've got dormant rootstock then normally you'd do the graft right then and let it season a bit before planting it out; if you're wanting to chip bud it then you'd need to have it growing! Think that most fruit trees are chip budded if the species allows, but that's because it's faster and easier to do; a team of 2 people can do more than a thousand in a day which is lots more than possible in the winter or early spring doing a whip & tongue graft. Plenty of info and tutorials out there on the web about doing it any way you'd like, I'd look at some of them and figure out which is best for you.
Dave
…I agree with Lotus, and here’s my thoughts; rootstock for grafting scions is usually dormant and bare-root. After I graft to a bareroot stock I ‘heel it in’ until a permanent location is established (dug). If that hole’s already worked up, I’ll plant it directly after grafting. The only danger is snapping off that ten inch tree… So mark and protect it!
Some folks will leave a newly grafted tree in a pot for the first season… I don’t see any purpose in that, it’s either going to grow or not. If it does, it can extend its roots undisturbed as far as possible without becoming pot bound.
Around here (you’ve no location listed), budding is done in late summer. I’ve watched the two man crews described above, though I believe it was called ‘T’ Budding. As mentioned, that’s a mass production process, and you’d need a fresh ‘bud stick’ of your desired variety… which isn’t always easy to come by that time of year.
Most of us, grafting a couple or so trees for ourselves, do a whip & tongue graft with dormant scions and rootstock. Usually mail order rootsock, if we can’t make it to the HOS Exchange. …the classes do help, or so I’m told. There are nuances tutorials just can’t cover, but some great tutorials. But wrapping or binding the two is paramount.
If you can find a decent tutorial, ask us about anything that doesn’t make sense. Most load so slow for me… I’m not up on the latest, but I have witnessed about every possible mistake at our grafting classes … and yes, a scion will grow up-side down 
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