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What I would advise is to take a look at the nutrient calculator Advanced Nutrients has on their website. Just ignore any of the rows for products you don't have. Use that as a basis but don't just blindly follow it.
So say your plants are "Mature Plants" which the chart says you should give 4mL/L of base nutrients to. My advice would be to start at about half, or 2mL/L. Since you're halving that, halve the supplements too, so instead of 2mL/L give them 1mL/L.
You have to get an eye for reading your plants. It's not hard, you'll get there. If they're doing fine at that dose you can leave it there or dial it up a bit. Just be careful and don't go too much too fast or you'll burn them. On the upside, if you do burn them you know for sure that's too much and that takes some of the guesswork out of it. Not that I recommend burning them or anything, because that's definitely not great for your plants.
The point is that the calculator is a starting point. You are usually going to want to go lighter than it recommends (this is true of any feeding schedule you find anywhere - always start light.) I usually start at half strength, and apply that halving to everything on the schedule that I'm using. It's the proportions of each nutrient in relationship to the other nutrients that is important. Keep those ratios the same, dialing the ratio to water up or down to control the total amount you're feeding.
Understand?
