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A spider mite infection that far along would usually be presenting other things as well, including very visible webbing, and a plant appearing a lot more "anemic" then this one does. aphids are the more likely culprit imho if its made it this far into flower, stayed this healthy, but is still displaying that kind of leaf damage, in my experience anyway. I've never had that much visible damage with spider mites, and had a still healthy, non webbed out plant lol. It takes a much higher volume of breeding mites to make damage like that visible, then something like aphids. Although it could be spider mites right as their growth/reproduction curve hits the exponential point, and he's just about to suffer some horrible consequences from a lack of preventative measures that aren't quite showing yet.
In most places, you're more likely to catch aphids in spring ime, and spider mites in the fall. Aphids dont care what plant they are on, and explode in spring time. Spider mites do actually have preferences though. There are many plants, in most highly wooded regions, that spider mites actually prefer to cannabis, and often they dont actually hang out too long on cannabis before trying to find somewhere else to reproduce.
Come fall though, most of their preferred plants to reproduce on are drying up and dying off, while this is happening, it is exponentially more likely some spider mites will find its way into your grow room and decide it likes it there and start reproducing. At least thats how it worked in the southern midwest, and southeastern USA for me.
Hopefully aphids, you dont have to toss nukes around for aphids, very easy to get rid of compared to spider mites.
Just because some may not know about it:
There IS a cannabis specific mite called the hemp russett mite though. And if you ever catch these you need to permanently, and forever, stop growing on that land/in that residence. You cant kill the eggs and they can lay dormant for decades. Once they are on your plants they WILL kill everything, 100%, and if you try to grow in the next couple decades, they will come back immediately, even after full fumigation of the premises. All you will be doing in attempting to grow there again, is spread the mite elsewhere. They're so good at destroying a grow op permanently, it almost feels like some dark magical curse if it happens. (thats a quote lol) I have a friend (commercial grower in KC) who's business they had millions invested in, was permanently destroyed by a single unquarantined clone with hemp russet mites.
How's that for a cannabis grower's nightmare?
Anyhoo, here's a GG4 clone that had pretty gnarly aphid damage, aphid damage is actually more aesthetic then it is derogatory even though it looks so bad, and i assure that many of you have probably smoked plenty of aphids and their sh*t through the years without realizing it. I got rid of thse aphids by harvesting the plants and treating the room before next go, never saw them again, was when i learned the importance of quarantining new clones.
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2nd grow? 
what day are you on? Would love to see more close ups if you can.
