This hypothesis was quite quickly rejected when results
began to conflict (there was more and bigger hail, or at least no detectable hail suppression as a result of the seeding) and it became understood that the seeding also produced stronger updrafts (due to the accelerated release of the latent heat of freezing by the silver
iodide seeding), which, in turn, produced an environment which was conducive to the formation of even larger hailstones.