Help! mold or spider mites?

Troubleshooting
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I haven’t since they started flowering, actually a little after they started flowering because I didn’t realize they were starting that cycle…lol. Rookie mistake.:woman_shrugging:t3:

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mites are easy to determine based on what they do to the fan leafs. Here are a few shots of leafs with mite damage for future reference.

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They suck the juice out of each individual plant cell and slowly kill the fans.
And here is the culprit under a scope
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Well dang! I did see one of those suckers on a bud I had to cut anyway😕 I don’t use the jewelers loupe enough apparently. I think another issue might be that I got a little too trim happy as she was flowering. I’ve been researching my buns off trying to figure out what I did vs what I should’ve done different.

Thank you for those pictures!