[pure-silver] what causes graininess?

I was enlarging some negatives today (using the ever-reliable Omega) and the prints look surprisingly grainy. The negatives are medium format and the prints are only 7" square. The ones I enlarged with the Devere before it broke don't seem as grainy. Does a condenser enlarger make things look grainier? What are the other factors? These negatives are HP5+ with DDX 1+4, processed around 11 minutes. (The longer processing time is due to the fact that the diffusion head lengthens the scale on the Ilford Warm Tone paper to about 1.2.)
I don't like grain and I am thinking of switching to FP4+ more, the only problem being that in the Hassie you have to shoot (hand-held) at 1/125 of a second, so there has to be a lot of light for FP4+ to work. I have a flash but I don't much like using it.
I thought that DDX might be the problem, but I tried ID-11 and didn't see any difference. I think DDX is a fairly fine grain developer, but I would be interested in what other people think. 

--shannon

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