Black Walnut is such a booger. It's hard, it dulls my tools, makes me itch; but oh when it's done, does it make your eye go big!
I had some blanks that had been setting on the shelf for 4+ years. Glueing the tubes with CA and 7 of 8 blanks I had enough time to get the tubes in before the glue set, 8th one set before I could get the tube 1/2 in (often see that with green wood). Also had a nice chunk of 6X6X12", soon as I cut it away from the anchor seal, sucker cracked before my eyes, and the next few days later cracked about 40 times more. Wish I had a moisture meter to see what its actual % was, but setting in a dry place that long, it couldn't have been high.
If you are applying the CA with bushings on, just touch the bushing and see if its tacky. Takes the CA a little longer to chemically react with steel than itself or wood, so if its dry on the bushing, "should" be dry on the wood. That will give you a general idea of how the CA is going to behave in your current conditions.