Especially for stone fruit with the dry weather currently if you are in the PNW. They often get diseases if you prune/cut scions in wet weather. Other plants may not be as susceptible, but it's a good time now, and why not? Keep the scions with a little moisture in a plastic bag in a cold place like a refrigerator or outbuilding.
John S
PDX OR
"A refrigerator or outbuilding" as you say should work for many kinds of fruit scions. You always have to watch peach, apricot, and sweet cherry about where they go as they will "bud swell" all winter long under the wrong conditions. You would have more luck having them stored right down to 32F if you can.
Most refrigerators (frost-free) cycle off for more than an hour once every day. In my case this brings even the top freezer box to above freezing at which point the other section in the upper shelf where milk is fine is too warm for scions. For me the best spot is under the lower shelf where the air is always catching cold air falling from the freezer even during one of those defrost cycles.
Idyllwild
simplepress
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Marsha H
Viron
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