Summer started out great. Beautiful weather, right amount of rain, tomatoes growing along their fence and in their cages.. Lots of fruits setting in...

But then we got dry, and chilly... then hot and dry... now we are getting into wet and very chilly overnights- low to mid 50's. With a few balmy 80's days. This is out of norm for the season, I usually don't see this for another goodly month and this is normally my super tomato season, almost can't keep up with them because they are ripening so fast.

We have gotten in a couple early "autumn storms" too over the last couple weeks- I get lake effect storms, but usually not like this till mid-October.

I've had a couple tomato towers fall over, some of them twice now. And part of it is because the plants are so heavily burdened with fruits that just are not ripening along because the weather has not been good for ripening.

I have been pulling off fruits at first blush as much as possible- which is kind of difficult since most of my tomatoes are white tomatoes and it's extra hard to tell blushing on a white tomato.

Since this whole scenario is unusual for me, I'm not sure what to do with my plants. Normally I just let them grow however they want till it gets to killing frost time.

Should I just keep letting them grow, and re-enforce the staking on the cages? Top off the plants now and hope that puts more energy into ripening off fruit- this will kind of kill me because right now a lot of them have some heavy duty flower setting at the tops, which also concerns me for top heavy toppling or not ripening before really cool season sets in in a few weeks. Should I cut out all of the suckers that aren't really producing anything to help concentrate energy to the main parts of the plants?