Sho'nuff is a Ball Family Farms release out of Los Angeles, named for the Shogun of Harlem from the 1985 film The Last Dragon. The brand has never published its genetics, and the name no longer appears in the current catalog. This one reads as a rotational drop rather than a permanent line.
Where It Comes From
Ball Family Farms is Chris Ball's company. Ball played college and pro football, started selling as a teenager to pay for junior college, and picked up cultivation while playing in Canada. A 2010 federal indictment over moving cannabis from Canada to Los Angeles later qualified him for LA's Social Equity Program when the city adopted commercial regulations in 2016.
He incorporated Ball Family Farms in 2018 and launched with a strain called Daniel LaRusso. The company describes itself as one of the first Black-owned, vertically integrated social equity cannabis operations in Los Angeles, built without outside investors.
Its Rare Breeds initiative mentors other Black growers into the licensed market. That is the through-line for everything the brand puts out, and it is the context a release like Sho'nuff sits inside.
The Cross
Genetics are undisclosed. Ball Family Farms states its cultivars are pheno-hunted, bred, and grown in-house, and it does not publish parent strains for its catalog. No lineage appears on the brand's site or on retail listings.
The name follows the house convention, which is film and TV characters: Clubber Lang, Bolo Yeung, Nino Brown, Dragonfly Jones, Deebo, Mrs. Parker. Sho'nuff fits that pattern exactly, and the pattern is worth knowing. With this brand the name tells you about the reference, not about the cross.
Worth knowing: Sho'nuff no longer appears among the 16 strains listed on ballfamilyfarms.com. If you find it, you are looking at older stock or a rerun, and the panel on the package is the only description that applies to what is in your hand.
What It Left Behind
No competition placements are documented for Sho'nuff. The brand's footprint is the real story: Chris Ball and Ball Family Farms are known in the California market for the social equity path and the Rare Breeds program rather than for any single cultivar.
That matters for how you read an in-house, genetics-undisclosed drop. You are buying the grower's judgment and the house's track record, not a pedigree you can look up. With this operation that is a reasonable trade.
The High Rise Take
Sho'nuff is a genetics-undisclosed in-house Ball Family Farms cut with a film reference for a name and no published parents. If the dosi lane is what you're chasing, Cherry Dosi is a better-papered place to start.