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Direct kinetic evidence for this link is limited, because it is difficult to measure both kinetics and morphology in the same experiment. In this work, we examined the growth kinetics of seed-mediated silver nanorods and linked them to their shapes using a dual-mode platform, iSCAT-FlucCS. We measured nucleation (k1) and growth (k2) kinetic parameters in situ with wide-field iSCAT microscopy and compared them to nanorod dimensions obtained from iSCAT fluctuation correlation spectroscopy. We found that k2 increased with seed concentration, and k1 shows no clear monotonic dependence on seed volume, modestly high at low seed levels. The nanorod aspect ratio decreased as k2\/k1 rose above a certain point, suggesting a shift from seed-limited to monomer-limited growth, with more variability below this threshold. 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