little spiders, not spider mites?

curious.george

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I have a fairly sealed grow area with a 400w HPS in it. It is sealed with and used CO2 and an AC. It is not a perfect seal and the AC when it runs has an exhaust that will create pressure for air t get sucked in through the cracks. The room the grow closet is in has a not sealed tent for mothers and a clone area that is also not sealed. There is a grow area that is off since it can only be sued in the winter. There is an intake fan that runs at night to keep the room cool.

I had some buds drying and last night and this morning I saw these little spiders on then and webs on the drying buds. The spiders are like an 1/8 of an inch in diameter so they look to big to be spider mites. Should I be scared? I was going to install an intake vent to my grow closet that goes through a bug net filter and seal up the cracks with caulk today.

I was thinking I should take all the plants out and release a bug bomb, or maybe seal off the closet and remove the clones and mothers and bug bomb without removing the budding plants from the room. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as seeing those spider webs really got my hart pounding.
 

Snicklefritz

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Spider mites leave webbing on plants and leaves, thats why they got the name "spider" but i dont think they spin very large webs. Google "Spider Mite Webs" and go to Images. There are some good photos of what the spider mite webs look like. If it doesnt look like that and its more of a spiders web I dont think you should worry cuz all spiders are predators, they dont eat plants so the only thing is there might be other little bugs around that they are trying to feed on thus spinning the webbing around your buds. Where there are spiders, there is usually prey items. If you have a High pixel camera, you could snap a photo of the spiders. zoom in and post it. that may help.
 
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