Photo shows whole plant, but could you also post a close-up of the leaves-rosette? It may be Echeveria pulvinata, it has fuzzy leaves.

*Soil looks quite moist - succulents like well draining soil.

*Plant is too long - while few have tendency to grow longer stalks, it may not be receiving enough light and is etiolated, stretching to get more. Needs to get more light.

*It looks like it is too deep in the pot and maybe pot is too large.

*Some succulents grow aerial roots (above mentioned E. pulvinata does).

rina

Here is a closeup. I hope it is good enough; my phone camera has had some hardships.

* I had the plant in direct sunlight in my sunniest window, and some leaf tips yellowed; I assumed it was getting too much light.

I have had this since the beginning of the summer and seen virtually no discernible change or growth.

update: I gave the stem a very slight tug to investigate the comment about it perhaps being too deep in the pot, and the whole thing came up, with very short roots coming off the stalk. Would this be a 'sign' that I should start fresh with new soil of known origins?

Again, Thanks for any help.

As Rina has already said, your plant is very etiolated. IMHO, you may want to behead your plant, allow to callous for about a week and replant in a more gritty mix. You can replant the base and put in more sun and you may get offsets from the stem. With the new beheaded plant, begin with good light, not direct sun, water sparingly until new growth appears. Since we don't know your geographic location, hard to tell about sunlight and other growing conditions. Again, as previously stated, this plant wants LOTS of sunlight to maintain good cultural appearance.

..."and the soil did not take up water evenly"... - this could be a problem for any succulent. As stated above, mix needs to be well-draining.

When i said 'too deep in the pot' I was referring to soil being too low from the rim of the pot. When potting up, fill the pot with more so plant doesn't end up so much inside. Good air circulation is as important, and it also looks better (IMO).

Small root ball is most likely result of too much moisture being held by the soil, and some of the roots deteriorating because of that - do as bikerdoc suggested. You could leave original stalk potted after be-heading, it may (or may not) start growing offsets. But not all plants will, and only if they have good growing conditions.

And definitely more light.