u/Azzizabiz

This is my first year trying to grow figs. I have 2 plants, both in pots. The larger one didn't set any fruit this season, the other I grew from a cutting sent to me from an online seller with decent ratings. It put out quite a number of fruits, but the first few that started feeling soft had developed these black / rotting spots on the bottom. The rest of the fig was soft, so I opened them up, and they all looked like this on the inside.

Is this Caprifig (and this useless to me, since it's for growing fruit, rather than being ornamental) or is this some kind of disease or mishandling with water / fertilizer? Any insights would be helpful!

White Madeira #1. Been growing it from a rooted cutting that I got back in April. I'm new to figs (have a Kadota and WM#1) and both were so small when I planted them, I wasn't sure I'd see any fruit this first year. The WM#1 has had absolutely explosive growth that I've tried to manage into a workable shape, but given that it's nearly July and I hadn't seen any fruit set, I figured I'd have to wait until next year for fruit.

Am I correct that these are my first figs coming in? And if they're popping up at the very end of June, when are they likely to ripen?

I'm in central NC (8a)

I have a Jewel Black Raspberry that I bought as a fairly young plant last summer. It only made a small number of anemic berries last year (somewhat expected). This year it made a ton of berries, though still quite small.

The canes that fruited are getting thin and the leaves are yellowing. Once I'm done getting what little fruit from it that I can, is it okay to prune those away? Or is there a reason to wait until fall?

I ask because I do have it in a large container and the new growth this year is massive. I was hoping I could prune out the old stuff to make more room inside the supports for all the big new canes.