transplanting a plant

One of my friends needs to transplant one of his chronic plants to my grow site but the thing is its already going into the flowering stage i was wondering if it would affect the plant if it was transplanted during the flowering stage cause if it will im gonna tell my friend to just sit it out and wait till his harvest comes, and i have one more question would i be able to clone the chronic plant even though its already in the flowering stage i plan on building an aero cloner in the next week or 2.

 

in my experiance you will lose about a week(5 7 days)to shock if you trans,which is no more than my veg plants.of coarse the more root bound they are the longer itr might take to "snap out of it"but i could be wrong on this,so guys some help here,i think once they go into flower they just uptake.dont really grow?in my bubblers i dont notice root mass getting bigger during flower they just drink and eat at that point.my point is if its in flower,why trans it?i have successfully cloned a 5 week flower,reveged it and had no problems.once it grows roots its like a new life,so even if its a bud...it should start veg growth when it begins to grow again.again this is my experiance,but it was easier and quiker for me to clone the flower than to reveg that plant.