How to determine gender of a young hop plant?

I'm looking for some info on this for reasons of domestication of wild hops that grow around. I need to sort out male plants from the batches I pick up in the wild -- currently I'm just waiting until some flowers appear and prune male hops after that, but this process is actually not very fast nor resource efficient...

Q: Is there any possible reliable method to tell apart small male and female hop plants before they start flowering?

Thanks!

Topic growing-hops hops homebrew

Category Mac

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Short answer; no. (Unless the parent was old school and painted the room blue or pink.)

However, for a flowering plant:

Cones are the female flower. The male flowers appear as small clusters of round buds

from http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=405875

First comment on page has a pic of both.

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