Well for a starters mate. Clawed leafs come from over watering, wind burn, mg deficiency, too many nutes or a few other issues, then it leads to the probs u have now if not fixed. Lower your PH. soil PH at 5 is fine. Keep the ph at max 6.5 and that's still high. Remember your plants don't drink soil, they drink the liquid that they get and over watering will lead to fluxs in your PH and pockets of fluid build up leaving masses of salt behind that's why your PH is all over the place. Rule of thumb is you should be able to see the top of the soil and it will be all prickle from your roots sticking up, stick your thumb down if you hitting hard cold soil is too damp. Let it try out, for the next wk just give distilled water with extra magnesium and micros to break it down. Any grow or bloom nutes stop, (you need to restart programme, and flush I go into detail about this on my tangerine dream auto. You need to flush, get rid of the build up of salts. And remember 1-2 inch should be more or less just damp and when you see that dried prickle look it time to water. Say u give 7 feeds over 2 weeks half of them should be just water. Good luck. Text me if you have any issues. I've good grows on soil atm