I am totally ignorant of your growing conditions, but can give you my experiences with Ranunculus. I have never started with a plant, only a bulb, using the term loosely. They are not planted deep, the top only about an inch under the soil level. Good rich well drained soil. Don't plant too early as they won't grow until the soil warms a little, right now for this location. They do well in a partial to full sun depending on location. After the plant dies down you can save the bulb and in fact you will find two or three bulbs where there was one. These can be separated carefully and you can multiply your stock for next year. Al

Some people use ziplock bags to store in so it would probably work the same way as the saran wrap. We had "rotten" luck (pun intended) when I used saran wrap so don't use any plastics at all.

Hi Doug, This is how we store our dahlia tubers. We finished digging the tubers around 10 days ago. All the crates are labelled and stacked in storage. Next week we will separate the tubers. At that time, the crates are lined with newspapers and we'll use wood shavings. The temperature in storage is kept around 40 degrees. Some growers use wooden crates. As a grape grower, I expect you have these; and, they would work fine. The bulb crates pictured are the same type of crates we use to grow our lilies in the hoophouses. Your dahlia farmer friend, Trish

Most likely, it will be fine. As long as the eyes and neck are not damaged, the fat part of the tuber can handle a little love/abuse. But here is the ultimate test. Leave it indoors or outdoors, even in a plastic baggy and watch for an eye to grow. Once you see either an eye bud out or a shoot appear, it will be fine. Eyes are appearing now in California so you should likely see something within weeks. If there is no eye, it won't bloom anyway and wouldn't be the dog's fault. If it does sprout and then bloom, you will have teeth-holes in the flowers as a memento. (just kidding)