Customer Reviews for Drive XLR8 Herbicide Crabgrass Killer

This stuff has been destroying our torpedo grass infestation, what a god-send!!! We have done 3 treatments on our Emerald Zoysia (my husband made it a bit stronger that the instructions) and we love it. Even with 50% stronger it isn't killing the grass. We finally got quack grass out of our beds, now time to get this out of our grass!!!

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I used Drive XLR8 (with recommended surfactant) as a spot treatment on crabgrass. The lawn itself was 1-2 months old blackjack bermuda (i.e. seeded). The Drive had little to no harmful affect on the bermuda. I'm opting to do touchup spot treatments every 2 weeks for a couple more treatments. reason is two-fold: instructions admit that crabgrass w/ 2-4 tillers may need extra treatment. Also, when doing spot treatments, I miss some of the crabgrass plants. The good news is that after 2 weeks it is obvious which crabgrass weeds are dying and which are not. I'd estimate I initially had a few thousand crab grass plants; at least half of those are dead after my 2nd treatment. The plan is to knock the crabgrass back some more and let the bermuda stolons do their thing. Next year I'll use pre-emergent and hopefully have minimal crab grass to control. Obviously I couldn't use pre-emergent when seeding a lawn. Though the lawn is probably only 15% crabgrass with rest being bermuda, I'll admit treating entire lawn instead of spot treating likely made more sense. Spot treatment is just more my thing.

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This is crap. This is not working as advertised. I mixed 4 tbsp to 1 gallon, with surfactant, sprayed crabgrass, fully coated. Next day, Nothing!. Absolutely, Nothing! At least Roundup will have a notable difference within 24-26 hours. Waste of time and money. Can't return due to I opened the container, but buyer beware. I will update this review if I need to, but as of today, I don't see a reason to.

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this stuff works great and shipping could not be any faster.

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For years I have been frustrated by crabgrass invading my lawn and not having anything to spray on it to kill it. When I heard about this product I finally decided to gamble the 60+ dollars to see if it would work. Well, it really worked. It is the only chemical that gets rid of mature crabgrass. And, the neatest thing about killing crabgrass is that crabgrass is an annual. If you kill it this year, it will not return next year (unless new seeds have been dropped). 460+

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I used this on my lawn in Houston Tx area and killed other weeds but not the crabgrass which is my main problem.

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Wont work against Texas crabgrass. Most it will do is turn it purple/red then it comes back bigger.

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I've been fighting crabgrass in Greenville, SC for as long as I've owned a house (almost 30 years).. Over the years, I've tried all sorts of crabgrass weed killers - often at the expense of damaging my lawn. Finally I found Drive XLR8 and thought I would give it a try, or rather invest in it. XLR8 is an amazing product. I used 2oz per gallon as well as 1oz (or maybe it was 0.5oz) of their mineral oil surfactant (M.O.S) in a one gallon garden pump sprayer. I had a large area to spray and I used a broadcast spraying method. After a week, nearly all the crabgrass was dead - but my tall fescue (Kentucky 31) was just fine. I went back with a second spot treatment application on a few of the crabgrass weeds I missed. So no more back breaking from pulling crabgrass for me - or lawn damage from RoudUp. Follow the directions on the bottle which I think maybe a little conservative. This stuff works great as advertised. Excellent product indeed. PS: Once dead, the treated crabgrass seems to just dissolve..

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Did some selective spraying on crabgrass and it seems to work great. Have bought many things form "Do My Own" and they ship quick and are great to work with. Also appreciate the ability to download the PdF of the items I buy

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Superior product. Much faster and widespread results than most other Quinclorac products. A more targeted herbicide than Q4. But if Crab and foxtail are your target, this is your product.

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Mixed in a sprayer and applied to crabgrass with great results. In less then a week results were nearly 100 % complete. Totally satisficed and will use in the future if necessary.

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This product works! Results where evident well within 72 hours. My lawn is infested with crabgrass but this product seems to be taking care of the problem. I will definitely use it again.

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Got behind on my crabgrass management this year. Was concerned about its effectiveness on somewhat mature crabgrass (no seed heads yet) . Was pleased to see it is killing off the plant. Doesn't seem to harm the fescue.

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This stuff works so well you MUST follow label for rate of application. I will admit to being one of those guys that will add an extra couple ounces per gallon to assure kill. Not with this stuff...it doesn't take much. I also love that it kills broad leafs as well...so when spraying crabgrass and you see that occasional dandelion you can hit it.

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Crabgrass Killer, that is what this stuff does, fast I have found nothing better.

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don't buy it, wasting your money , i used it to kill crabgrass other kind of weed. did not kill any of the weeds at my yard.

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Sprayed on crab grass, two days later crab grass is dying. Best product I have found to kill serious infestation of crab grass.

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I have used Drive XLR8 along with Duo Stick 3 times over the past 45 days. I have had zero luck. A few sprigs here and there turned purple for a few days but nothing ever turned white and died. First batch was 1.5oz per gallon, nothing happened, second batch was 2.5 oz per gallon and again nothing. Last batch about a week ago was 4oz per gallon and nothing. I have added the correct amount of duo stick for each spraying but zilch. It has been an extremely wet summer for TN so the product has had plenty of moisture to get absorbed into the roots. Guess I have some serious superman crabgrass or I just do not know what I am doing. Time to try a different product because the crabgrass in my yard is taking over the entire yard very quickly.

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I had a major crab grass infestation in my front yard. I mixed the Drive XLR8 herbicide with water & a non-ionic surfactant as per the directions. Within 4 days the crab grass was completely dead & brown. The mixture did not affect any of my rye & fescue grass so now I'm ready to re-seed with healthy grass to replace the dead crab grass. I am happy with this product and will use it again, if necessary.

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Followed label 3 table spoons per gallon to spot spray and used Non-ionic surfactant instead of recommended DyneAmic Surfactant and I didnt mow a few days before or after application and crabgrass was completly dead in a 7-8 days im not talking yellow but full on brown DEAD . My lawn is ryegrass and didnt effect it in anyway . With this in my lawn arsenal I can now worry about other things than how am I gonna kill this CrabGrass.

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After viewing several videos suggesting that using xlr8 as a remedy for crabgrass. The first problem I have is the directions do Not give you the true mixing amounts to kill the crabgrass. So it becomes trial and error in order to find the right mixture that will yield the results desired I unfortunately haven't found that mixture So I'm continuing to adjust

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I love this product and will definitely get it again in the future, if needed. It killed all of the crabgrass which had grown out of control. It does exactly what it states. I don't mind the yellow spots because now I can till and plant grass seeds that I want.

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Ordered this product because it stated it was zoysia friendly. The zoysia had been growing great for 6 weeks from seed, but the weeds were starting to come in strong as well. I marked off my 1000sf sections and applied to exact mixing measurements and sprayed. The weeds never even drooped, but all my new zoysia is brown and dead. I even have a very large tree in middle that all the leaves are now dead on that may be dead now. The weeds are all growing like crazy tho. Do NOT recommend this product on zoysia.

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The crap grass turned yellow on 4th day and brown after.May regular grass start coming back. Exelent product. The don't send to NYS.

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Good strong herbicide for Crabgrass elimination. It does take 5 to 7 dats to see the effect of green blades turning brown. Good choice for Crabgrass elimination.

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Didnt realize how much crabgrass I really had in the yard until 3 days later when it was all brown! Worked quick and was exactly what I needed.

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This stuff was incredible. Our yard became 95% crabgrass. Even the mature crabgrass died within less than 7 days of application. Our yard went from icky weeds to dried up dead crabgrass that we cut super low leaving almost all dust and dirt exposed. We then aerated and seeded using all DMO products. Our yard is so lush and green - it is turf quality. We love it. We do have some winter weeds that just popped up and took over so we are using tenacity this weekend. I heard it works great. So excited for how our yard will look in the spring. Going for best yard in the neighborhood!

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it really worked with my crab grass and torpedo grass the hoa sprayed it twice with their weak killer and just a few yellow leaves and i sprayed with 1 gallon container (3 refills) and yellowed all of the 3,000 feet of grass with one application it looks as though i never had it just today i got from them prodiamine 65 generic barricade to put down on my bermuda in florida at appropriate time great company and excellent people who answers questions with full knowledge of their products

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I would buy this over and over again. I had a major issue with torpedo & crabgrass, after the first treatment 90% of my weed is gone. I may have to do another spot treatment for the remaining weed.

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Wow!! I recently purchased a house and have been slowly reclaiming the yard from the wild. I used Scott's weed and feed to get rid of most of the misc. weeds and clover, only to have crabgrass start creeping in all summer long till almost half the yard had become infested with it. Planning for the future, I decided to plant some Zoysia plugs but wanted to make sure that the crabgrass wouldn't hinder their growth. So I asked a rep at DoMyOwn for their recommendation on a post-emergent crabgrass killer that I could apply now that wouldn't hurt my new plugs and this was it. Read all the directions, followed them to a 't' and a few days later almost all of the crabgrass is dead. (Approx. 90%) All of the good fescue, new Zoysia etc... are doing great. Can't believe how easy it was. Thank you for the expert advice DoMyOwn! :)

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