Bottling my 1st brew soon and need advice

[molehill]

My hydrometer reading after boil was 1041 and I transfered it to the secondary fermenter after 6 days with a reading of 1010. I was planning to bottle in a few days and was thinking of adding a carbonising sweet to each bottle. I used a Nottingham dry yeast which worked steadily over those 6 days. Would you do what I plan?

[greenxpaddy]

I would ignore those sweets.
Go to kotmf website and put in your info into the calculator. Prime the whole secondary with White sugar dissolved prior in a small amount of water stirring gently into secondary then bottle away.

Much better

[molehill]

I had a look at the website but unsure how to work out the quantities to be entered into the calculator?

[greenxpaddy]

You need to know what temp the secondary is at and the volume of beer. Then search the beer ref guide for the vols CO2 you desire. If in doubt 2.0 vols should be ok for most.