It looks to be nute burn to me. It is just on the tips of the new growth. If the nutrients in the perlite are not organic, you do not have an organic grow. Growing organic is kind of like being pregnant--you either are or you aren't. Chemical nutrients will kill the microbes in the soil. If you are growing organic, pH should not be an issue. If you are not, it is critical. We worry less about the pH of the soil if it is close to 7, but it is not really the soil pH that is the issue, it is the pH of what you are feeding the plant and the pH of the run-off. I am not familiar with the green pill type of pH measurement, but IME, I have found nothing to really be accurate except a quality meter that is regularly calibrated. We do need to know the pH down to an (accurate) tenth.