Knee jerk reactions never solve issues overnight.
Plenty of advice that you were given by different members in this thread definitely would’ve helped your situation but…
You have blamed mostly your lights throughout this thread. Started off by saying these expensive lights must be a scam not providing the correct wavelength for growing plants… HLG must’ve gotten the best of a lot of us then, wouldn’t you say? Then you claim your grow shop must’ve gotten fake HLG’s with no evidence or facts to back up either statement.
“So clearly looks like these expensive Led lights are not even producing the correct wavelength for growing anything what as scam...”
And later on you also start blaming genetics, if you bought bunk seeds from an unreliable source, then it’s your own fault for not doing your homework on the seedbank, at least enough to make sure they can be trusted with your money to give you a legitimate pack of beans. (This is assuming the genetics were even an issue.)
In my experience at growing my own smoke for at least 15 years now, every single breeder I’ve tried and even the bagseed I used early on never were the problem due to bad genetics in the least… I have definitely had strains I liked better than others, but that’s up to your taste and preferences. Truly, if I wasn’t happy with my harvests and results, it was simple: me screwing up things like dialing in my environment, over/under watering, not enough plant training, not feeding enough in flower, etc. And many of those issues I just didn’t fully understand until I messed them up, and had to fix what I screwed up.
If you had browsed on here just for even a few minutes before buying those seeds in a hurry probably trying to get a quick deal, you probably would have easily found a seedbank you are interested in, that has gear you like, and that ships to your area, no doubt about it. (Again, this is assuming the seeds were the problem.)
So next time before you go start whining on public forums, and possibly misleading some people new to this who are debating if they should switch to LED… maybe you should try to use some critical thinking and problem solving skills to attempt to figure out where you went wrong.
Any issue with your environment, or plants is typically caused by mistakes you’ve made. Which is not a big deal, as we’ve all been there to learn from the mistakes and grow a better next crop. But you definitely can’t start to learn and progress, unless you can start to be man enough to admit where you screw up. Blaming lights, your genetics, and everything but yourself is not the answer towards progress and a better harvest. Just a few thoughts…
Happy Growing.