I leave them be.

They will either produce fruit or drop blooms.
You will not outsmart your plants.

Thanks robeb, that is what I have decided to do ! Good Call.

I don't remove flowers either. With such a short growing season, will take any blossoms I can get. A ripe June tomato sets a positive tone for the whole season.

Before transplanting out, and at that point the seedlings are 6-9 inches tall, I used to take of all buds and blossoms, and that b'c you want all plant energy to go into making a great root structure as well as good stems and branches, keeping the plant in what's called the vegetative cycle before letting it go into the sexual cycle of blossom formation, fruit set and maturation.

And that b/c energy is diverted to the sexual cycle at the expense of the vegetative cycle,

But if I had plants as big as yours are already, I'd just let them do what they're going to do and not worry about it.

Carolyn

My tomatoes just reached a foot tall and have a lot of un open buds. So I can leave them on the plants.