If your plants were healthy and you had a long growing season, they would put out new flowers. But in 7b, VA, if they have no small fruits or flowers at this point, I would call them "done". Any flower from this date should take over 45 days to make a ripe tomato and that is under favorable temperatures and other growing conditions.

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Thanks. Just now saw there's at least one flower cluster on each plant and one also has four small fruits. It's been above average hot and local weather predicts similar through September so there might be enough warm/hot days for several more weeks to ripen. But not sure I want to use up the valuable sunshine space for those few fruits. We'll see, I'll leave them for now, at least until I decide. I often get tomatoes into October so ending early/mid-August has been sad when everyone else is loaded with green fruit.

Waki, I find that my season is short enough that my determinates basically produce from late July/early August right through first frost. We have an average 155-day frost-free period. I always get more than just a bunch of tomatoes all at one time - like you, they usually produce for 6-8 weeks, but that's my seasonal window anyway, so they start petering at around the same time as the indeterminates. They definitely look worse physically (yellowing and browning), but they're simultaneously putting on green growth with flowers and setting fruit. I basically just let them do whatever they're gonna do at this point, but then I don't need the containers for other things..

I'd say pull 'em if you need to start fall crops. With nights getting cooler, you aren't likely to get tomatoes as delicious as the mid-summer-ripened fruit anyway. Get your fall stuff going.. :)

Other than this weekend's "fall teaser," we're still mostly highs 90s/lows 70s so still a bit warm for full fall planting. I think I'll let the one with small fruit on it already keep going but ditch the others for the space. I don't need the actual containers - fall containers already ready and waiting to be sown as soon as it cools a bit. I need the physical spot the tomato containers are sitting at since that's the only full sun spot I have left. I guess I could leave the tomatoes in the containers and just move them elsewhere, but nearly everywhere "elsewhere" is part or full shade, so I doubt they'd do anything even if I left them until November first frost.