ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 9th June 2026

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod... one of us has plants on the brain...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM Podcast Network, it's Fletchborn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Well, guys, you know, the Reno's have finished and I've moved everything back into place. She's lovely, isn't she? Yeah. Just needed to get a couple of plants, you know, as a bit of a cherry on top. A little finishing touch. A couple of plants.

Put some house plants. Yeah. Gotcha. In some places. Yeah, yeah, you're gorgeous. So I go and buy some plants, gorgeous plants. Gorgeous plants. Don't know what they're called.

These little ones with leaves and they're kind of... What you are I describing there, indeed, is a plant. Is a plant. Something with leaves. So it's leaves and it's real and it's in soil. And it's in soil, it's cute. It sounds to me a lot like a plant. Had a real cool pattern, a colour.

Isn't it a begonia? Oh, I don't know. A begonia? It's got like... Isn't that a big thing? Oh no, not begone. That's a little one. It's the one.

It's got lines. Not Patagonia. It's got lines. It's got lines. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so. I get these on the shelves and, you know, looking good. And is it one of those?

Yeah, it's an omier of some kind. Yeah, that's what it is. It's like one of those. A calathea. Yeah, it's a calathea. A calathea. A calatia. Because this is what Dr. Shawnee told me when I came over.

I was like, look at this one that I got today, Dr. Shawnee. This was... He's very plant-wise. Remember when I was renovating, he housed all my plants. I know. He's very good, our friend, Dr. Shawnee. plants and I was showing in this plant and he looks under the leaf the leaves and he's like oh no and I was like what do you mean oh no this is a beautiful plant oh no he's like oh no you've got

spider mit oh fuck oh I got a little spray for the spider mites yeah no and I was like for fuck sake like I just bought this he's like who sold you this I was like it was just this cute little shop like a bougie like a boutiquey spider mite infestation and he's like oh they shouldn't they should have known about this I was like well what do I do Were there signs of spider mines or was he just Does he check every plant for a spider mine? No I think there were a little

A little sign yeah but I'd only just got it that day So I went out and got the spray the next day And I doused it in what can only be Described as probably Cancer-causing carcinogenic spray But yeah you don't need to though do you But a knee oil but a knee oil Well yeah there was

Neem oil but that's a process I do that somehow to spray it Just got the spray What's my black flag? No. I mean? I just went for the... At the work, wouldn't it?

At the plant saw the stuff that they recommended. Yeah. Which is like a full on spray. Yeah, yeah. And it was that, oh, you know, the warnings on the bottle, don't drain to the ocean. Oh, wow. You're making some serious shit here. But even Dr. Shorty said, like, if your plants are next to another plant, they can go on the other plants.

So I've got to be... Yeah, shit. Yeah, they're sorry, man. It's the SDI of the house plant. Yeah, they are. And everybody be fucking. Yeah. All the houseplants be fucking.

The chlamydia. Yeah. It'll get around the plants like it does during gay pride. There was a, yeah, shit, yeah, like wildfire. There was a real, like, popular place in Auckland, and it was always known for its, like, abundance of cheap plants and shit, but you knew you were coming home with mites. It was just like, like, really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You would just get it in and be like, right. Well, no, I feel like I've got to go check my plants for Spider-Mite. It'll kill it if you leave it. I'm just, I've decided that I'm going to, like, teach myself about my plants, and I'm going to be really good. Boy, he's learning. Because I just leave them and I just don't worry.

Yeah, you do. And somehow, your plants generally thrive. Yeah, well, because I live in a greenhouse. Yeah, yeah, literally a glass. A really hot apartment. It gets the sun all day. Oh, well, I'm glad you're on to it. But I've got the mites.

You've got the mints. Oh, ooh, don't bring them into studio. Sorry. Ooh.