yes you will have to have some patience.

Mushrooms take a couple of months to produce lots and lots of them, enough for years. Cacti on the other hand are pretty slow. Well compared to other cacti like peyote for instance they grow amazingly fast.

And so is the cactus experience, very slow take off and pretty easy to go and flow with it.

Mushrooms I find a much more difficult experience, very dreamy, nailed on the ground or couch, very weird and often scary. Cacti can also be a dreamy experience, but it's also very stimulating and much longer lasting.

If you read a bit in the cacti experience section you will notice that the majority finds the cactus experience easier to handle.