Beginner Gardening: Why is this Echeveria leggy and pale?, 0 by kwie2011

kwie2011 wrote:
It's currently getting several hours of direct, south sun daily and none of my other Echeveria, or anything else, are etiolated. In fact, my Crassula tetragona has apparently burned in the same sunshine. So...

History:

Purchased in July looking about identical to how it looks now: a lot of space between nodes. I assumed it was etiolated from lack of light in the store or nursery because some of the other succulents were also suffering from low light (Sedums with no red, Aloes flattened like sea stars, etc.). It was in a 3" pot of coir, I think. I left it in the same pot & soil, and slowly acclimated it to about 6 hours direct sun and the rest bright shade. I expected it to get some red edges. It didn't. It did develop some slightly tan/dry edges though. I have since moved, and for the last couple months it's been on a south-facing balcony. It hasn't really done anything since I got it. It's leggy, doesn't really have rosettes, doesn't have any red at all, and to me, looks pretty unattractive. It also shows no sign of flowering while it seems other people's plants are in bloom now.

What I want are relatively compact rosettes, some red edges, and blooms. What should I do? FYI, I moved it from its coir and small pot into grit with my Aeonium arboreum a couple weeks ago. The Aeonium is growing happily, and so are the calico kittens I also planted with it a week or so ago, so it should be growing also, but as far as I can tell, it's still just sitting there.

Terribly slow grower? Needs beheading? Stunted from life in coir? Stunted still from shop? Too much fertilizer (thinking that because excess nitrogen can cause fast growth and lengthy nodes while also suppressing blooms, or so I've read).

Opinions?