Hi! I'm not sure this is the right forum to post this, but I see some people have asked stuff on watermelons here before, if there is a better place to ask, do let me know.

I have a Sugar Baby watermelon vine that is about 3 months old.

The problems are: a) It's august; b) it's 15 cm long.

It seemed to perk up a bit with recent rains, but people have told me it's too late to actually get some harvest.

I live in NE Mexico, 6 hours below of Texas. Our winters are usually mild. Usually, they range from 14°F to 60°F. It may hail, but snow it's very, very rare, and only on high altitudes (where I'm not).

To give you some context, last year I accidentally started a tomato vine too late. It held up until January and gave a single, undersized tomato, and it could've lived longer, but I just yanked it up to save it from it's misery, it definitely was not happy. My point is, it survived.

Do you think mine could make it? Since it's so small, I could actually bring it inside, even? Would it produce by next summer if I put it on the ground in the spring?

Thanks for your attention and advice!