Suddenly got some black spots on leaves... scale, rust, opinions? They were doing so good!

Kenny, it looks to me like you have rust fungus on your leaves. Has your weather become more humid/rainy in the last few weeks or have you been wetting the leaves of the figtrees while watering? This fungus spreads rapidly on wet leaves, so it is best to water the plants without wetling the leaves. Of course if your weather has become more rainy there is not much you can do unless they grow in pots and you can shelter them from the rain. (might not be too pratical...)

It looks like you have use some white powder on the leaf and trunk; what was that for?

You will need to treat the plants with a fungicide based on copper sulfate. Follow directions carefully. Even though it is getting close to the end of the growing season (I assume you are in the northern hemisphere), you should still start the treatment now.

Marcel

Can you still eat the figs after using the copper fungicides?

The fall is approaching fast, and some old leaves start to deteriorate by the minute.
I don't know which variety I'm looking at, but one of the reasons I like growing figs is to avoid spraying them.
I don't see anything that calls for concern at this point.

Thanks for all the help I was out-of-pocket this weekend down in Houston helping some folks muck their houses. The first one we worked on had water which had come just to the top of the bottoms truss member and the ceiling sheetrock was already collapsed. We basically stripped the house down to the studs! Anyway, I haven't got that many more years left in me that I can do that kind of work so I figure get in my licks now!

I'm in tx so it's pretty hot and hasn't been raining much though it's possible they might of gotten hit by the lawn sprinklers. Still, I would have thought they'd dry out (maybe). It has been getting colder at night though, so maybe that's normal? Should I leave the figs on there over the winter?

I'm in North Austin and don't take inside or protect any of my figs in winter which means in some cases total dieback, but most manage to either send out new shoots or suckers in spring.
All my pots are either against a wall or on the patio but never in a totally open space. The winter winds are very damaging.
Most of the damage my trees get is usually caused by voles. The only ones that were lost to winter freeze were fairly small dormant figs received from the same nursery and did not wake up in spring. That years I lost three varieties from the same source.
FYI, I was able to root a whole bunch of figs on my patio last year while leaving them outside all winter long and my success ratio was very high. I had them in Self irrigating pots and watering from the bottom only.
I don't recommend you doing this with your most valuable cuttings. What is interesting is that the success rate was jut as good as rooting them inside, but the rooting period was much longer than when inside, coinciding with the normal dormancy period of my other trees.

Thanks for your help in the recovery effort.

I get some leaves here which look like the ones pictured every fall, this year included. It has been generally dry as a bone, very low humidity, and the leaves don't get wet. Unless it gets out of hand and you end up having premature defoliation I wouldn't worry. Problematic rust could be a problem in your area so take heed, but I'm just saying I get that here and it's not a problem and it's not from water.