socalliegal the reason you cannot see fig flowers are because they are in the fig. They are not flowers like on other fruit trees. The spotting you're seeing might be mold or mildew on the fig, just a guess without pictures.
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it's kind of white and crusty when I hit it with the hose...hmmmm is this typical for figs? It's the uppermost ones only!

Posting a picture will give members a much better idea of what is going on with your fig plant.

I have about a 10 yr old tree. It produces tons of beautiful mission figs. We pick them, and when we open what looks like a perfect fig, the inside has this brown crusty stuff......it's hard like cardboard. It is obviously inedible. We used to have perfect, delicious figs. Then this happened. Is this a disease? Is it something that we can treat to prevent? Help!

socalliegal, it sounds like what you are describing is latex. If you nicked the plant, or cut it in any way then it probably dripped a whitish looking sap onto itself. Nothing to worry about.