I grew my BB/NL organically in soil, in a five gallon bucket...and this was also about 3-4 years ago. Only had one female, but she definitely lived up to her name. I was exaggerating a little bit about the diameter of the main cola, although I've seen some pretty unbelievable pictures of monsterous buds grown outdoors. My main bud was roughly the diameter of my foot, and needed to be staked up.

I have a few Polaroids of some of my older grows, there might be some pictures of it lying around. If there are, I'll scan them onto my computer for you to look at. But I guarantee the quality will be shitty.

At the time I was using a 600w HPS system, and didn't have a conversion MH bulb yet...so mine was probably a little taller & lankier than it needed to be. If you have the means, I'm sure a MH for veg would keep it nice and squat in stature before you flowered it. Mine seemed to love the HPS in flower, though. Bushes of pistils quickly surrounded the main stem, and later got covered in a dense resin. It had a pretty 'hashy' taste to it when I smoked it, and was a full-blown narcotic high. Put me to sleep a couple of times.

I can't remember exactly how much I yielded off the one plant, I know it wasn't at its potential because of the stretching. I'd guesstimate that it was around 90-100g, dried, though...which was acceptable to me. Can't really think of anything in particular about the grow that stumped me, it was a pretty easy plant to work with.

Good luck with yours! :jointsmile: