Expect SL Herbicide – Glufosinate Ammonium 24.5% gallon (128 oz)

Expect SL Herbicide

Sharda USA Expect SL Herbicide is a professional broad-spectrum, non-selective postemergence herbicide containing 24.5% glufosinate ammonium for rapid control of emerged annual and perennial broadleaf weeds, grasses, and sedges. Its Group 10 glutamine synthetase-inhibiting chemistry provides a valuable alternative mode of action for weed-management programs in golf courses, turfgrass, landscapes, ornamental production, nurseries, greenhouses, tree production, and non-crop vegetation-management sites.

A generic alternative to Finale, Finale XL T&O, Cheetah Pro, and Surmise Pro, Expect SL provides the same 24.5% glufosinate-ammonium active ingredient concentration in a professional soluble-liquid formulation. Expect SL acts through treated foliage, with visible symptoms typically developing within 2 to 4 days under favorable growing conditions, while flexible broadcast, spot, directed, trimming, edging, renovation, dormant-turf, and individual-plant treatments provide precise weed control across a wide variety of professional use sites.

Features & Benefits

✓ Contains 24.5% glufosinate ammonium with 2.37 lb active ingredient per gallon

✓ Group 10 non-selective postemergence herbicide controls annual and perennial grasses, broadleaf weeds, and sedges

✓ Visible weed-control symptoms typically develop within 2 to 4 days under favorable growing conditions

✓ Rainfast in approximately 30 minutes to 4 hours depending on weed species, rate, and environmental conditions

✓ Broad professional label includes golf courses, turf renovation, landscapes, greenhouses, nurseries, Christmas trees, and vegetation management

✓ Directed, shielded, trimming, and edging applications allow precise vegetation control around high-value turf and landscape features

✓ Generic alternative to Finale, Finale XL T&O, Cheetah Pro, and Surmise Pro with the same 24.5% glufosinate-ammonium concentration

Labeled Use Sites

Expect SL is labeled for golf course maintenance and landscaping; native grass and natural areas; ornamental-production nurseries including greenhouses, lath houses, and shade houses; commercial, residential, and industrial landscapes; maintained turfgrass; conifer and hardwood tree-production areas, nurseries, and plantations including Christmas trees; and extensive non-cropland vegetation-management sites.

Turfgrass uses include lawn and turf renovation or replacement; winter annual weed control in fully dormant bahiagrass, bermudagrass, centipedegrass, and zoysiagrass; and specialized selective programs in turfgrass specifically identified as glufosinate non-susceptible. Additional labeled sites include athletic fields, recreational areas, airports, roadsides, rights-of-way, railroads, industrial areas, bareground sites, pipelines, utility facilities, solar farms, sod farms, parks, cemeteries, schools, fuel-storage areas, parking areas, trails, and other managed non-crop sites.

Target Weeds

Broadleaf Weeds: bindweed, wild buckwheat, buffalobur, common burdock, common chickweed, white clover, common cocklebur, common dandelion, curly dock, hemp dogbane, redstem filaree, fleabane, goldenrod, field or corn gromwell, henbit, field horsetail, jimsonweed, kochia, common lambsquarters, prickly lettuce, little mallow or cheeseweed, horseweed or marestail, mugwort, mullein, tansy mustard or flixweed, wild mustard, nettle, nightshade, wild onion, field pennycress, pigweed, redroot pigweed, plantain, common pokeweed, common purslane, ragweed, London rocket, yellow rocket, wild rose, shepherd's purse, Pennsylvania smartweed, annual sowthistle, leafy spurge, Canada thistle, musk thistle, Russian thistle, wild turnip or wild radish, velvetleaf, vervain, Virginia copperleaf, white heath aster, and woodsorrel.

Grass Weeds & Sedges: bahiagrass, barley, barnyardgrass, Bermudagrass, annual bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, downy brome, smooth brome, carpetgrass, crabgrass, woolly cupgrass, dallisgrass, fescue, giant foxtail, green foxtail, yellow foxtail, goosegrass, guineagrass, rhizome Johnsongrass, lovegrass, nutsedge, fall panicum, para grass, quackgrass, ryegrass, sandbur, shattercane, signalgrass, sprangletop, stinkgrass, torpedograss, Vaseygrass, volunteer wheat, wild oat, and common windgrass.

Brush, Trees & Vines Controlled or Suppressed: blackberry, western red cedar, deerbrush, Douglas fir, elm, gallberry, hazel, honeysuckle, huckleberry, maple, multiflora rose, oak, pine, poison ivy, poison oak, roundleaf greenbrier, salmonberry, sumac, sweetgum, thimbleberry, trumpet creeper, and vine maple.

Application Notes

Apply Expect SL to actively growing foliage for best postemergence performance. General broadcast rates range from approximately 27 to 82 fl oz per acre depending on weed size, growth stage, density, and environmental conditions. Weeds less than approximately 3 inches generally use 27 to 41 fl oz per acre; weeds up to 6 inches generally use 41 to 55 fl oz per acre; larger or tillered weeds generally require 55 to 82 fl oz per acre. Spot-spray solutions generally range from 0.4% to 1.25%, with a 2.5% solution labeled for certain individual-plant treatments.

Warm temperatures, high humidity, bright sunlight, and complete foliar coverage favor performance. Avoid treating vegetation stressed by drought, prolonged cloudiness, excessive moisture, or temperatures below 50°F. For optimum burndown activity and consistent postemergence control, the label permits spray-grade ammonium sulfate at 2 to 4 lb per acre plus either methylated seed oil at 1% v/v or nonionic surfactant at 0.25% v/v. Expect SL may also be tank mixed or applied sequentially with appropriately labeled preemergence herbicides to provide residual weed control.

Product Information

Active Ingredient: Glufosinate Ammonium 24.5%
Active Ingredient Concentration: 2.37 lb active ingredient per gallon
Mode of Action: Glutamine synthetase inhibitor
HRAC/WSSA Group: Group 10
Chemical Family: Phosphinic Acid
Formulation: Soluble Liquid / Water-Soluble Concentrate (SL)
Selectivity: Non-Selective
Application Timing: Postemergence
EPA Reg. No.: 83529-82
Manufacturer: Sharda USA LLC
Signal Word: CAUTION
Brand: Expect SL Herbicide
Generic For: Finale / Finale XL T&O / Cheetah Pro / Surmise Pro — same active ingredient and 24.5% glufosinate-ammonium concentration; always follow the Expect SL label because formulations, registrations, rates, and use sites may differ
Restricted Use: No federal Restricted Use Pesticide designation
Recommended Surfactant: For optimum burndown, use Prosurf 90 at 0.25% of the finished spray volume (about 0.32 fl oz of NIS per gallon of finished spray).