Thai Green Egg Eggplant: Growth Habit & Growing Tips

Key facts

Growth habit

Bush

Listed for

United States

Overview

Thai Green Egg is a bushy Southeast Asian heirloom whose small, oblong, egg-shaped fruit show light and dark green stripes. The compact plant suits pots, and the small fruit is used whole or halved in curries.

Thai Green Egg traits

• Small oblong egg-shaped fruit
• Light and dark green stripes
• Bushy plant habit
• Southeast Asian heirloom

Good for

• Thai curries
• Container growing

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Thai Green Egg 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.