This is pretty cool. I will keep posting here my progress/setbacks.
It will serve as motivation to me, and humor to you guys (seeing a newbie screwing up)
well I am gonna let both sensors run for a while as the one I had hooked up originally is reading 14 and the new one(it was in soil for a few days too, just not wired) is reading 46.
I think the elec. going through the sensor dries it out a bit as time goes on because the numbers are dropping on both and seem to have stabilized on 14 for sensor #1