Wilting Tomatillos

Most of the news that I end up posting is positive and showing how well all of my plants are growing. However that is not always the case and I want to start documenting my plant problems as well. Perhaps someone has some suggestions to my issues.

It seems that over the last several days two of my four tomatillos have taken a turn for the worse. Both of the tomatillos that I started from seed this year (Gigante and Pineapple) are wilting:

They both have fruit on them but they are not filling out the husks as they should be. I have harvested quite a few healthy tomatillos from these plants so far this year, but it is looking grim for the rest of the season. I'm not sure what is wrong. The two tomatillo plants (the ones that I purchased from eBay) next to the two that are wilting are doing great. And last year I grew two Gigante tomatillo plants and they did amazingly well.

I don't see any bugs on the plants. The leaves are all curled up and wilting and the fruits are just falling off when you touch them. I also don't see any mold or other disease on the leaves. I have been watering regularly and the weather hasn't done athing that should cause these issues. Anyone have any idea what may be wrong and if there is any corrective action that I can take?

The only thing that I can think of is that maybe one of the many cats that wander through my garden decided to use that part of the bed as the litter box. Although there is no smell. Who knows.

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