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Irrigation Water pH Control: Comparing Sulfuric, Hydrochloric, Citric and Carbonic Acid
Sulfuric, hydrochloric, sulfur burner, citric, and carbonic acid compared for irrigation water pH control, including residual salts, safety, and organic status.
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What Causes Black Layer on Golf Greens, and How Water Quality Plays In
Black layer forms when greens lose oxygen and sulfur-reducing bacteria take over. The causes, a quick field check, how it differs from black algae, and how bicarbonates and high pH water add to it.
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Does Carbonic Acid Add Bicarbonates to Irrigation Water?
No. Carbonic acid lowers irrigation water pH without raising alkalinity, and a larger share of the dissolved carbon shifts from bicarbonate to carbonic acid. The chemistry, research and field data.
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Iron Deficiency Chlorosis: The Iron Is Already There
Iron deficiency chlorosis turns new leaves yellow even in soil full of iron. What bicarbonate does at the root, and why iron fertilizer fades.
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Where the Salt Goes Under Drip Irrigation
Where salt goes when you irrigate, why it collects at the edge of the wet zone, and what your water report does not tell you about sodium.
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How Soil Texture Shapes the Drip Irrigation Wetting Pattern
How soil texture shapes the drip irrigation wetting pattern under an emitter, and why sand, loam and clay wet in three different shapes.
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Video Blueberries Started Responding When We Switched to ECO2MIX
Rajbir Singh grows blueberries in the Central Valley on hard ground with poor water. Ten months after an ECO2MIX system went in, he describes what changed in the growth and the quality of the plants.
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Video Why an Agronomist Puts His Growers on Carbonic Acid
Eryn Gray owns AgroSource and has advised growers for 20 years. He explains why carbonic acid water pH control replaced the water treatment products he used to recommend.
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Video Can Carbonic Acid Support Blackberries?
Phillip Adam of Innovative Produce in Santa Maria compares ECO2MIX carbonic acid water pH control against the sulfur burner and the untreated water he used on his blackberry blocks before it.
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Video Who Keeps Your Water pH Control System on Target?
Mark Velasquez covers the Central Coast between Watsonville and Santa Maria, checking every ECO2MIX system on his route. What a fully managed water pH control service looks like from the technician's side.
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Video ECO2MIX at the Cal Poly Strawberry Center Field Day 2026
ECO2MIX brought a full reactor skid and a mini scale model to the Cal Poly Strawberry Center Field Day on July 23, 2026. Carlson Herbert and Mark Velasquez on what growers wanted to know.
Watch & read → Does Carbonic Acid Add Bicarbonates to Irrigation Water?
No. Carbonic acid lowers irrigation water pH without raising alkalinity, and a larger share of the dissolved carbon shifts from bicarbonate to carbonic acid. The chemistry, research and field data.
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High Bicarbonate Irrigation Water on Golf Courses
High bicarbonate irrigation water raises soil pH, ties up calcium and builds scale on turf. How to read your water report, and the water pH control options that manage it.
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Nanobubbles vs Carbonic Acid for Turf
Nanobubbles add oxygen and support soil biology. Dissolved CO₂ forms carbonic acid and controls pH and bicarbonates. What each does on a golf course, and when to use which.
Read more → What Causes Black Layer on Golf Greens, and How Water Quality Plays In
Black layer forms when greens lose oxygen and sulfur-reducing bacteria take over. The causes, a quick field check, how it differs from black algae, and how bicarbonates and high pH water add to it.
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Carbonated Irrigation in a Tempranillo Vineyard: What the Research Shows
ECO2MIX summarizes a peer-reviewed study on carbonated irrigation water in a Tempranillo grapevine vineyard — covering nutrient absorption, yield improvements, and what it means for inline carbonic acid pH control.
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Video The Secret Ingredient Behind Your Strawberries
A Human Element short film on a California strawberry farm that treats high pH well water with ECO2MIX carbonic acid, and why Waldo Moraga compares it to rain.
Watch & read → Irrigation Water pH Control: Comparing Sulfuric, Hydrochloric, Citric and Carbonic Acid
Sulfuric, hydrochloric, sulfur burner, citric, and carbonic acid compared for irrigation water pH control, including residual salts, safety, and organic status.
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Water pH for Almonds: Why Irrigation Water pH Matters
Almond irrigation water is best held between pH 6.0 and 7.0. How high pH water ties up nutrients and scales drip lines, and how carbonic acid holds the target.
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Video Lowering an 8.4 pH Well to 6.8 on a Golf Course: Tom Lipscomb
Golf course superintendent Tom Lipscomb on treating an 8.4 pH well to 6.8 with ECO2MIX, and what four years of treatment did to the calcium buildup in his pipes and greens.
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Video Recycled Water, Growing Healthy Strawberries
A field visit to Watsonville, CA, where ECO2MIX treats recycled municipal water for a strawberry grower. The same system works with well water and district water.
Watch & read → Video How We Sample Golf Course Soil for BeCrop and Haney Tests
Spring soil sampling at Seven Oaks Country Club in Bakersfield, California: how the samples are taken, and the BeCrop and Haney tests used to track four-plus years of carbonic acid treatment.
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Video Less Fertilizer, Better Soil Biology: Silas Rossow on Carbonic Acid
Silas Rossow of California Ag Solutions in Madera, CA shares how ECO2MIX's carbonic acid treatment improved soil microbial health and reduced fertilizer inputs for the growers he works with.
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Advancements in Water pH Control – A Look at Carbonic Acid Application
Why irrigation water is best held near pH 6.5, the drawbacks of sulfuric acid and sulfur burners, and how carbonic acid compares as a water pH control method.
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Video How We Started Looking at Soil Health
Waldo Moraga, founder of ECO2MIX, on how a water pH control service started testing soil, and what a side-by-side sulfuric acid and carbonic acid comparison showed.
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Video MyAgLife Podcast: Automated Water pH Control
Waldo Moraga on the MyAgLife podcast: why carbonic acid replaces sulfuric acid without an acid tank on the farm, and what side-by-side tests showed about soil microbes.
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Carbonic Acid for Turf: Water pH, Bicarbonates and Soil Health (TurfNet Webinar)
Waldo Moraga’s TurfNet webinar on how water pH and bicarbonates affect turf, how carbonic acid compares with sulfuric acid and sulfur burners, and BeCrop soil results from a Bakersfield golf course.
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BeCrop Case Study: Results from Two Years of Strawberry Carbonic Acid Application
Over the past two years, we've partnered with Biome Makers to study the co-benefits of carbonic acid-treated water on strawberries. This case study highlights the positive changes we've observed.
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A Sulfuric Acid Replacement for Irrigation Water pH Control
Carbonic acid from dissolved CO₂ as a replacement for sulfuric acid and sulfur burners in irrigation water pH control, and what sulfuric acid demands of growers in safety, corrosion and compliance.
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Acidifying Irrigation Water With Captured CO2
Technical analysis of how captured CO₂ provides an alternative to sulfuric acid and sulfur burners for irrigation water acidification, with benefits for soil health and sustainability.
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Carbonic Acid Equilibrium: How pH Shifts CO2, Bicarbonate and Carbonate
How water pH sets the share of carbonic acid, bicarbonate and carbonate in fresh water, with Saruhashi’s 1955 molar fraction table from pH 6.0 to 8.0.
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What is pH?
pH is one of the most important parameters in the solution that delivers water to crops, either through irrigation or through the moisture present in the soil. This matters a lot when defining what ty
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