How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?

[TacticalFate]

I cut some Japanese arrow bamboo three months ago, stuck the culms in a warm room, and they're still pretty green (light green). I notice that most of the cane arrows posted to this site are that typical bamboo golden color, and I was wondering how that color was gotten. Is it sun, heat, or just a process of time?

[mullet]

Stick it out in the sun for a few days, it will turn nice and Golden. I'm doing it with some right now.

[CherokeeKC]

Yeh I have had some cane drying for at least 2 years now and they are still light green though fully dry.  I need to do the same.  Mullet do I need to worry about them cracking at all?  Also I am guessing you need to turn them over after awhile?

[stringstretcher]

Putting them in the sun after they have dried will not crack them.  If you put them in the sun when they are green, they will crack every time.

[mullet]

 I have mine bundled together and on the corrugated metal roof of my shop. It's in the ninety's here and they were slightly green when I put them up there. I've never had them crack. I've got some that have been laying on the ground for three weeks that were green and they are fine. I tie full length pieces together for trellis' in my garden when they are green.

[crooketarrow]

  There just not seasoned. Let time so it's thing.

[stringstretcher]

Must be that Florida Sun Eddie.  We don't get that here....lol

[mullet]

We have it all of the time, Charlie .