Sho'nuff is an indica-dominant hybrid from Ball Family Farms, the Los Angeles indoor cultivator founded by Chris Ball. The brand lists it on Weedmaps as flower, up to a full ounce, and describes it as heavy-hitting kush with a bubblegum-sweet finish.
The name comes from The Last Dragon, the 1985 Motown martial arts film. Michael Schultz directed it, with Berry Gordy as executive producer. Julius Carry plays Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, who challenges the hero for martial arts supremacy.
A film villain in a lineup of screen characters
Ball Family Farms names its cultivars after film characters and cultural touchstones. Its first strain, Daniel Larusso, nods to The Karate Kid, and later releases include Dragonfly Jones and Nino Brown. Forbes listed Miyagi-Do, Bonzai Tree, Bruce Leeroy and Laura Charles among its cultivars in 2020.
Sho'nuff and Bruce Leeroy come out of the same movie. Taimak starred as Leroy Green, nicknamed Bruce Leeroy, a New York student chasing the final level of martial arts mastery. The brand's copy for the strain borrows the villain's swagger, calling it a blend "that won't settle for anything less than supremacy."
Bred and grown in house
Every strain Ball Family Farms grows is bred and cultivated in-house. The company calls its product craft flower with no white labels and no shortcuts. It grows indoors, using a combination of living soil, organic and biodynamic cultivation.
Chris Ball told Forbes in 2020 that pheno-hunting can take up to 6 months, followed by another 3 months to produce a crop. The Weedmaps listings for Sho'nuff describe high-THC flower with resinous gland heads, hand-crafted with organic nutrients. Primary effects listed are relaxation, comfort and inspiration.
Chris Ball and social equity in Los Angeles
Ball played college and pro football before cannabis became his business. He started selling at 16 and was incarcerated in 2010 on cannabis charges. He also graduated from UC Berkeley with a sociology major and a business minor.
He founded Ball Family Farms in 2018 without outside investors. The company calls itself one of the first Black-owned, vertically integrated social equity cannabis companies in Los Angeles. He owns it with his brother Charles, a retired baseball player. By 2020 its flower was in 32 dispensaries, and the brand has since worked with Ricky Williams, Lena Waithe and actor J. Alphonse Nicholson. The full story is in how Chris Ball built Ball Family Farms.
Rare Breeds and the growers behind it
In April 2025 the company launched Rare Breeds, which gives legacy growers mentorship, tools and a platform to reach the licensed market. Its first protégé was Zak Alkatib, known as Hoodbaby, a self-taught home grower who bred Invader Zim from Runtz, Zkittles and Animal Cookies.
Under the program, Ball Family Farms makes and markets the product while the grower keeps ownership of the genetics. Hoodbaby can take all of the Invader Zim intellectual property with him if he leaves. The strain sold out in a test run before its official release in June 2025. Chris Ball summed it up to GreenState as giving real growers a lane.