Jilo Tingua Verde Claro Eggplant: Growing Tips

Key facts

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Overview

Jilo Tingua Verde Claro is a Brazilian heirloom jilo on tall plants, bearing green oblong fruit that turns red-orange as it matures. It is normally picked and cooked green, in the Brazilian manner. Stake the tall plants and pick often.

Jilo Tingua Verde Claro traits

• Green oblong fruit ripening to red-orange
• Tall-growing plants
• Brazilian heirloom, used green

Good for

• Brazilian stews and frying
• Sauteing

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Jilo Tingua Verde Claro FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every eggplant variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Eggplant growing guide
• How to Plant Aubergines: Choosing Plants and Soil Temperature
• Training Aubergines to Three Stems and Keeping Them Cropping
• Cutting Aubergines Back in Midsummer for a Second Crop
• Aubergine Growing Calendar: Planting to the End of the Season
• Aubergine Problems: Wilts, Beetles and Hard, Dull Fruit
• When to Pick Aubergines and Why to Take the First One Early
• All 172 eggplant varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.