I'd suggest getting virus indexed cuttings from UC Davis. Dr Huey is very easy to root.

The link below may take a while to load--12 pages--but quite informative.

Budding is fun and can significantly increase the quantity of propagating material you have to go into production. A goal you might consider is limiting your creations to those which root quickly and easily; grow well where you are on their own roots and produce healthy, vigorous, sufficiently colorful plants own root. Much commercial production is rapidly moving away from budding, back to own root plants. If you succeed in creating a really good rose, why limit yourself by having it potentially require budding to perform well enough to be considered for introduction by a "major" producer?

All of the specialty nurseries are own root producers. If you want an Heirloom, Vintage, Burlington or Rogue Valley to consider your creation, it's going to have to be decent on its own roots. Basing your selection process on the performance of budded plants is more likely to cause you to choose roses requiring budding; possibly introducing unnecessary viral infections into your creations; and introduction of roses which may grown own root, but potentially not be very good own root.

Most of us know the benefits of own root roses, where the types are appropriate for the climate. You may have the opportunity to create HTs which grow and produce well in the areas so many are stating only budded HTs are worth growing. That would be a very worthy goal, in my opinion. Kim