{"id":10673,"date":"2020-11-15T18:11:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T02:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=10673"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:27:16","slug":"comprido-verde-claro","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/product\/comprido-verde-claro\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprido Verde Claro"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Grown, sold, and described by <a href=\"http:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bunny Hop Seeds<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Time to maturity: midseason<\/li>\n<li>Shape: edd-shaped, nearly teardrop<\/li>\n<li>Color: lime green ripening to orange and then scarlet<\/li>\n<li>Approx. number of seeds per pack: 20+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cComprido Verde Claro\u201d is a Brazilian eggplant variety that came from Africa, along with residents of Africa, to Brazil. It belongs to an eggplant type called jil\u00f3. Of the two eggplants of this name (jil\u00f3), Comprido Verde Claro is lighter green and less bitter. This is a different species of eggie than I usually grow, Solanum gilo. You can see that in the plant, in which the leaves are rather serrated. The fruits begin as little lime green balls, and elongate into egg shapes that eventually turn scarlet red. The ripe fruits are not usually eaten, as they are extremely bitter with hardened seeds. The goal here is to grow the fruit as large as it can be while staying green. I have found that hot, dry weather hastens the ripening, to where the smaller fruits are ripening prematurely. This eggie does better for me, living on the Gulf Coast, grown in partial shade and given lots of water.<br \/>\nI have found some excellent details of the uses of this eggie variety: \u201cIn Southeastern Brazil, it is common in bars and restaurants to snack onsaut\u00e9ed jil\u00f3 and onions when drinking cacha\u00e7a, the national drink of Brazil (This jil\u00f3 and onion snack is called tira-gosto in Portuguese). Jil\u00f3 and onions are considered a good alternative to other dishes that are traditionally used in bars, such as pork rinds (torresmo in Portuguese), sausages, and sardines, all of which are normally fried in oil. In rural areas of Brazil, where it is also known as jinjilo, jil\u00f3 is an ingredient in a tonic used as a home remedy for influenza, colds, and fevers (Kurozawa, 2007).\u201d https:\/\/worldcrops.org\/crops\/jilo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10674,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[73,12],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10673","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-eggplant","7":"product_cat-bunny-hop-seeds","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}