Advise on planting/pruning fruit trees

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Hello, This fall I'm going to plant about 14 fruit trees on the edge of my yard. The position they are going to be in will not allow any sun exposure on the north sides of the trees.

The way my yard is positioned the sun travels basically parallel with the trees giving sun on the west,south and east sides of the trees. the north sides of my trees won't get any light once the trees get fuller and have a lot of leaves.

Should I completely prune back all of the north sides of all my fruit trees? Basically creating like a 3/4 round tree. Any advice would be helpful.

I included a cheesy little drawing I made with my sons crayons so it can give you some idea of what I'm up against

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Mike says...
If that is Kentucky Elia (fall,south sun) the trees will prefer as much full sun as they can get.Trees distribute resources pretty well and there wouldn't be much advantage in heavily pruning the shades side of the trees.They will catch more sun as they get taller.

Anonymous says...
For pest control have you also considered planting beneficial insect / predator attracting plants amongst your trees? In regards to fungus control I use copperoxychloride or mancozeb.