Plant growing problems

Hey good people, I’m still having plant issues. This is my third grow and I grow in my basement, but this is a new basement and it feels colder down there than my other basement. I have a 4x4x80 vivosun grow tent with 2 HLG 260XL’s for lighting, in FoxFarm Happy Frog soil. I’ve been testing my water with a ph kit, but didn’t trust it and just bought an Apera PC60 ph tester. Because I was using tap water that was coming in with a ph between 7.5 and 8.5, I started adding a little lemon juice to get the ph to about 6.5. I’ve also been using distilled water but that gets expensive. I wrote before and the advice was maybe I was adding too many nutrients, so I stopped feeding them nutes because I wanted to see what the ph of the runoff was. Here are the results: Water going in had ph of 7.5, Cond was 2.13, TDS was 1.51, and Salinity was 0.11. Runoff on one plant had a ph of 6.25, Cond 2.04, TDS 1.45, Salinity 1.02. here’s the strange part(unless I’m reading meter wrong, but I looked close), Plant #2 had a ph of 5.96, Cond of 1000, TDS 711, Salinity of 0.50. What should these numbers be? Attached are some pics…I have 5 in the grow tent. They’re all 6 weeks old(Veg). Three are Skywalker OG and two are Gorilla Glue. They’re growing kind or gnarly…not straight up, even though I’ve raised the lights. I know you don’t like pics under the grow light, but they honestly came out better than pics outside the tent. I know it looks like nute burn, but the only thing I’ve added is some Cal/Mag and some Preen to help with some black aphids. Help…I want to go to flower mode

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Looks like maybe the scale on your TDS meter got changed from EC to PPM. No way to make sense of those numbers as they stand: I would suggest getting runoff data (TDS and PH) in a ppm format that we can all understand. FYI the EC (TDS) of 1.45 is about 700 ppm on the NACL scale.

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