Keep backups on hand and you won't have this problem again. A spare blade is like $15, way cheaper than losing all that morning rush money.

Tried the same thing with my neighbor last spring and it saved me a headache (and a call to a plumber). Sometimes the simplest fix is hiding in plain sight, right?

Ngl my grandma has been growing pothos for 40 years and still calls them philodendrons.

Honestly that sounds about right. I pulled a full run of Claremont's early X-Men from a dollar bin once, had a first appearance of Mystique in there and didn't even know it until I got home. Tbh those quarter bins are where the real magic happens, everyone sleeps on them while fighting over graded books. Ngl I still check every single bin I see, even if my wife thinks I'm crazy.

You said "the suction velocity matched the soil better" and honestly that's probably exactly what happened. I've run pumps for years and found the sweet spot is always lower than you'd think, especially in mixed sand. RPM ain't everything when the material decides how it wants to move through the line.