needing to pick your brains

Hi all,just put my first crop through the veg cycle an things are looking good,iv bin using aqua flake a+b with zyme,plants about a foot tall an looking to put them in to flower.wth the right pk will the a + b be enough for big strong buds,or should I be using more nutes?iv read I'll need totrim all lower leaf an suckers off to get better results at the top.can anyone help please??

I'm not familiar with "aqua flake a+b"... All I can say is that when your in flower the plant is trying to produce buds and resin... you wanna make damn sure that your lady has everything she could want so all she has to do is create for you. If "aqua flake" is a complete nutrient with all your micro and macro nutrients, then you should be fine just adding some p/k booster into your feed program. I can't say if you should be using more nutes, but if she is healthy then you shouldn't have to make any big changes.

The trimming your talking about is referred to as "lollipopping", where you basically strip the branches on the bottom half of your plant. Essentially, this is all about "light penetration". You want to take off anything that your light cannot penetrate to. This should make the bud sites that you leave grow into bigger, fuller buds.

Hope this helps.

Don't know about your nutes, never heard of them before. I used to use Fox Farm and have used Earth Juice and some other stuff but went to Advanced Nutrients full grower system for hydroponics. I know that when using FF by their recommended dosages I got decent growth and flowering, same with Earth Juice. So, as long as you follow the manufacturer's directions you should do OK. Learn to fill in the nutritional gaps or fortify the weak spots as you go along in the future. Get books and test equipment.

Thanks for those tips,getting into the books,infamation over loud some days.nice to have it broke down to plane old english,cheers again