Tomato plant... should i have pinched this out?

Hi. I looked at my tomato plant and what i thought was the central shoot now looks like it should have been pinched out.

Heres a pic

http://imgur.com/5ZsOQ2d


Im quite new to this sorry. Im also not too sure on the variety but heres a pic of the whole plant.

http://imgur.com/jy2fk7r


Thanks!




edit to show pics!

You are correct in thinking that the stem on the left is a sucker. You could keep them both and have two stems or prune one out.

But looking at the spacing of your plants it might get pretty crowded in there with two stems.

Pinch out suckers and just bung 'em into the border - they tend to root very readily!

When they've gotten to that size I usually just leave it and resigned myself to losing the pruning battle.😜. Maybe this year will be different.