I have been doing some limited culling of fruit on OPs for years. Unless you have a way to support huge trusses of tomatoes to stop them pulling off the plants then some of them need fewer tomatoes than they sometimes produce on that first fruit cluster. There are some varieties that have super strong stems for the trusses that rarely break or peel off despite the weight they are supporting. It takes some experience to learn which ones can support large trusses and which can't. I have a Limbaugh's Legacy out there with nine little tomatoes on it and there is no way the stem will support that much when they start getting large so I will have to remove some. And I'm sure in the next few weeks I will find some others that need thinning. It is far better to thin some than to find your whole cluster of green fruit laying on the ground after it breaks from the plant.
Bill
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