date palm researches still having many scientific gaps for example how we can use the traditional methods for male and female separation in the germination stages?
The following two links contains two publication which may be helpful in allocating the simplest methods for germination and identification of date palm:
Currently biotechnological tools are available to identify sex forms, it is still not possible to do it with morphological characters. Dr. Rafik has already given links for sex identification at germination level.