Well, that fucking blows. Have we established that the spider mites for sure came from the BAH clones? It couldn’t have anything to do with the power outage, right? Or maybe some combination of the two? Like, the fact that you couldn’t get in there for five days and the plants got a little unhealthy maybe kind of exacerbated the problem?
In any event, yeah, that sucks, sorry to hear it.
I’m not even sure I’d do that, probably just trash everything and start over. But I do tend to freak-the-fuck-out over even the slightest possibility of bugs or any sorta plant-related problem at all. Seems easier (to me, anyway) to get rid of everything and not even risk having the issue linger for months.
I will say, though, that my “No clones in my garden!” stance has just been reinforced by, like, 100 haha.