Virginia store hopes to create buzz about growing marijuana | Wire

Happy Trees Agricultural Supply’s Aaron Beydoun talks about products the new Spotsylvania County, Virginia store will have on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

Various products will be on display at Happy Trees Agricultural Supply in Spotsylvania County, Virginia on Tuesday July 13, 2021. The store offers equipment and advice for hydroponics and indoor gardening.

A product sold at Happy Trees Agricultural Supply will be on display in their Spotsylvania County, Virginia store on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. The store offers equipment and advice for hydroponics and indoor gardening.

By ROB HEDELT, The Free Lance Star

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (AP) – Visit Happy Trees Agricultural Supply at 10813 Courthouse Road in Spotsylvania County and you can purchase products to keep your peppers or microbes away from insects to keep your zinnias pop.

You can also buy everything you need to grow the four marijuana plants that every Virginia household is allowed under a new state law that went into effect July 1.

Happy Trees sells tents, lights, ventilation systems, planting media, nutrients, products against insects, beneficial fungi, good bacteria, thermometers and hydrometers. Or, you can buy a package that contains everything you need to grow and take advantage of healthy cannabis plants.

“We have a lot of customers who come to us and say they don’t know about growing marijuana plants and want us to help them get everything they need,” said Branch Manager Aaron Beydoun. “Our aim is to help customers and others who want advice on better ways to grow vegetables or flowers.”

Happy Trees was founded in Richmond by Josiah Ickes and Chris Haynie and now has stores in Spotsylvania and Petersburg. They have experience working on medical marijuana farms in California and supplying products to a hemp farm in Hanover County.

Ickes contacted Haynie at another store and was impressed with the help he was getting. The two chatted for a while, realizing that once marijuana crops were grown legal in Virginia, there would be a market for products and advice – and that many of the products they could sell would work just as well on other crops .