Customer Reviews for Drive XLR8 Herbicide Crabgrass Killer

Due to the extremely wet spring and early summer we had here, my regular pre-emergent was rendered ineffective. Crabgrass took over my entire yard. I applied "Drive XLR8 Crabgrass Killer" as directed on one acre of my property. Within 3 days the crabgrass and many other weeds yellowed and within a week the plants shriveled enough to allow my fescue to come thru and start to re establish my lawn. I was extremely pleased with the performance of the product. This product requires a surfactant to be applied with it and I strongly recommend using it as directed. I purchased a seed oil product.

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This stuff worked very well. I live in Virginia and I had several patches of well-established crab grass infesting my fescue lawn. Using this with the MSO as recommended on the label worked very well, noticeable change in 72 hrs, brown dead crabgrass in 1 week! Controlled other weeds as well. Worth the cost. Plan on using this and alternating with Tenacity (mesotrione) for weed control throughout the season.

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I haven't seen any results so far. I kinda feel like I wasted $75.

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Please note that it can take 2-3 weeks before you see full results. It is also essential that you use Drive XLR8 with a surfactant for the best results. Please let us know if we can help you trouble shoot the application. We can be reached at 866-581-7378

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Posted same review on another product.Used DyneAmic with Drive XLR8 and Certainty on newly seeded Princess 77 yard 100' x 80'. After 3 weeks, Princess and Quackweed started to emerge. Used landscaper who infected my front yard with this crap. Several areas of crabgrass also noticed. The above cocktail, properly mixed per instruction, killed the crabgrass within 4 days, and the quackgrass, one week out is now a bright yellow. Will be applying a second mixture to the quckgrass in another week just for the overkill. Princess grass still smiling.

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I bought a hand sprayer that attaches to garden hose. I set the selector on the hand spray wrong. Did not set # to arrow on sprayer. Crabgrass started to die in 3 days. I used a lot more Drive XLR8. Next used a pull behind sprayer attached to mower at the correct speed and oz per acre not good. If you don't spray early in season you might want to add more. Beautiful front yard now.

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its July in Washington DC. Really hot and humid. Crabgrass and torpedo grass have taken over my yard. Mostly torpedo. the Drive killed the crab grass within 1 day. No questions asked. but the torpedo grass... not yet. the directions say another treatment is required in 14 days. so we'll have to wait and see

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I have not found anything that works better than this product. I mix 1-1/2 oz per gallon of water (6 oz per 4 gallon back pack sprayer) and just spot treat. Takes about 2-3 days before you see yellowing. I spray the crabgrass when it's a little longer and wait at least three days before I mow or water. Also helps if the grass is getting good water before you apply. Doesn't work as well when the grass is so dry/brown. Crabgrass comes in stages so multiple spot treatments work the best for me.

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Tried Quinkill (small container) in the fall last year to experiment. Not great results, but also realize conditions for application just couldn't be met. Took the plunge and bought this (little pricey as well), and applied it exactly as label indicates for spot application in KY Bluegrass. Worked great! Chlorosis in about 2-3 days and Necrosis in about a week. Applied Thursday and Mowed Saturday. Applied in mid 80-low 90 temps. Normal irrigation up to application and then No water for 2 days afterward. Between this and speedzone, I have a 95% weed free lawn now.

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Better than any herbicide you can purchase at a box store. I've been fighting crabgrass for years and have tried numerous products. Pre-emergent never seem to last through the growing season and other products are not very effective on mature plants and require several applications. Noticeable results in three days and after a week I would say it is a 99% kill rate. I have 4.5 acres and only applied with 2 different boom sprayers. I properly calibrated my sprayers and mixed Drive per the manufactures recommendations. A little pricey but money well spent.

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I have a huge back yard with a lot of crabgrass. I purchased Drive last year, and it didn't kill very much of the weed. I'm sure it was because I didn't use a surfactant. This year I mixed a surfactant with the Drive and what a difference! You will get much better results from Drive with a surfactant.

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worked great on big patches of crab grass in my lawn killed the crabgrass in about 4-5 days and did not yellow the good grass!

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I followed the directions closely & used a surfactant. I made sure we had some rain first & I didn't mow. I applied it, and then we had some more rain in the days following. Within a week, the crabgrass was brown & crispy. It even rained very lightly within 12 hours of applying it & it still worked great (the label says wait at least 24 hrs. before watering). I would highly recommend this product.

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I had a huge crabgrass outbreak and this product was incredibly effective in killing it off quickly. Most of my crabgrass was 5+ tiller. I used a pump sprayer and spot sprayed my whole yard. Only spots of my mixed lawn with fine fescue showed some yellowing. The bluegrass tall fescue and ryegrass was completely unaffected by the herbicide. Exactly what I expected.

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Works excellent. I mixed it with methylated seed oil to cut through the wax coating and had great results. Couldn't get one gallon of mixed product to cover a 1000 sq ft though - more like 500. Targeted just the crabgrass, nothing else - just what I needed!

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We sprayed this on our crabgrass and within a week it was brown and dead!!

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After trying several selective herbicides to only have the crabgrass turn slightly brown and bounce back, I decided to spend the money for drive xlr8 and the suggested methylated seed oil. After 1 application on a sunny day, I noticed most of the smaller crabgrass was browning within 24 hours. After 3-5 days, most was dead. Some of the larger areas took a second application but at least I have my yard back. 4/5 because of price, but it's worth it.

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I used Drive XLR8 and the recommended Dyneamic spreader for crabgrass in Bermuda turf, worked great with no damage to the Bermuda turf.

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All the information I needed could be found through the Q and A. I made sure to use a surfactant. This nailed the crab grass. It got the clover in my yard as well but it took a while longer to see the effects kick in on it. Just what I was looking for

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First time using this. My bermuda lawn was being taken over by crabgrass. Sprayed Drive on it and you could tell it was working the next day. Did have to spray my front yard twice though. That may be because of the severity of the crabgrass though. Overall, I'm very satisfied with it.

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The Drive XLR8 worked worked very well on my thick crabgrass. Will probably give another application next year earlier in the season. It didn't kill what I call crowsfoot or wiregrass depending on who you talk to so I will have to contact them to see if they have a product to take care of that.

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Although I've seen some negative reviews of this product, I have to think the people that made the comments didn't follow the directions or it was not crabgrass they were trying to kill. Be sure and use a surfactant with it. Great service from DoMyOwnPestCntrol.com, too.

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I use this with a surfactant. it is expensive but you only use 1.5 oz per gal. The draw back is if you wait (like I did ) till sept or so, the crab grass really takes hold and spreads (south Carolina) so you end up with large dead patches. Its amazing how that stuff spreads. I know the grass will fill back in again. I used amine 400 with it and did not have any bad grass damage. war on weeds and war on crabgrass, it never ends. next year --pre-emergent then touch up with drive earlier than sept.

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I use this with a surfactant. it is expensive but you only use 1.5 oz per gal. The draw back is if you wait (like I did ) till sept or so, the crab grass really takes hold and spreads (south Carolina) so you end up with large dead patches. Its amazing how that stuff spreads. I know the grass will fill back in again. I used amine 400 with it and did not have any bad grass damage. war on weeds and war on crabgrass, it never ends. next year --pre-emergent then touch up with drive earlier than sept.

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Drive XLR8 is the only herbicide I have used that actually killed the yellow foxtail in my yard. I am, so far, very pleased with its efficacy.

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The best crab/orchard grass killer I've ever used. Kills the crab grass and doesn't effect the lawn.

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After reading the reviews and most had great results, so I tried it. I bought XLR8 and Methylated Seed Oil. I live in Utah middle of the state, My grass is Kentucky blue grass maybe a little mixture of other grasses because in small areas the grass turned a lighter green, looks to be recovering. I mix 12 Tablespoons to 4 gallons XLR8 and 8oz Methylated Seed Oil, Temperature was about 90deg. Did not water day before and then I sprayed and did not water for 24hrs after. Sprayed August 10th by August 16th all of the crabgrass is dead, as in BROWN. Before that crabgrass seemed to be growing out of control and very healthy. I did see one or two new starts but just pulled them out and for 4 days nothing. This stuff is amazing, I will be using this on my other properties.

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I bought this due to all the reviews stating it killed their crab grass; however after 3 weeks, it did not work for me. It did kill all the other weeds and not my Bermuda grass. Instructions were carefully followed and used MSO also. I even followed up with a concentrated spot spray on the crab grass with no results. I will say i noticed the young crab grass yellowing but the mature crab grass is too resilient which is taking over my lawn. If anybody has other suggestions, please inform me!

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Read the other reviews online and it seemed this was the best option to defeat the crabgrass. I had tried several off the shelf crab grass killers to no avail. My yard was starting to get taken over. I followed the directions and I mixed with Southern Ag Surfactant. By the third day the yellowing was apparent. I am at day 6 now and I can tell it is dying. I just need to hit the spots I missed now.

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Very good product, i saw effects after 3 days. I'm using 10oz of xlr8 / 25 gallons

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I put this on my lawn before leaving for a business trip. When I returned 3 days later, my crabgrass is dead or dying. This is the first product I've used with such great results. Application was very easy using my tow behind tank sprayer and instructions were easy to follow. I highly recommend this product.

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