Should I transplant close to initiating Flowering?

Hello

The current plant I have is 5 and a half weeks old in roughly a 1 gallon pot. I am going to initiate flowering in about three or four days and I was wondering if Its ok to transplant this close to flower? Will the transplant shock hurt the plant too much? I was thinking about transplanting into a 5 gallon bucket that I have. Im using Fox Farm Ocean Forest for soil and I already drilled holes in the bucket for drainage. Also, to initiate flowering, should I give it one day of complete darkness then switch to 12/12? If anybody has advice on this I'd greatly appreciate your input.

-GB

Don't need a dark period. Transplant it, with some fresh FFOF soil you dont need to add any nutrients for awhile. IMO you can flip the light cycle anytime you want too. If I was doing it though, I'd probably at least give it a couple days after the transplant just because. The more careful you are with the transplant, the less likely it will show much of any shock.

Cobnobuler said:

Don't need a dark period. Transplant it, with some fresh FFOF soil you dont need to add any nutrients for awhile. IMO you can flip the light cycle anytime you want too. If I was doing it though, I'd probably at least give it a couple days after the transplant just because. The more careful you are with the transplant, the less likely it will show much of any shock.

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Thanks for the quick reply. Right now im growing under CFL's.. right now i have 4 26 W CFLs 2 13 W CFL and a LED. All lights are 6500 K with the LED being 2700K. THe 13 W and LED are side lights while the 26's are all top lights. So your saying transplant into the 5 gallon bucket and then give it about 3 days or so then start flowering?

Sure, why not. You could probably flip them at the same time if you want to. I'd probably let it settle itself a few days. I doubt if it makes much difference.

imo, ocean forest has a lot of veg food in it. i would give it a very mild does of what ever your using for flower food when you flip it to 12/12. Just be careful not to over do it being that like cob said, ocean has some fertilizer already in it.