Just got my new persimmon and it looks the same except I have an offshoot at the very top. The bark looks good so I will probably leave the tree as is and so what happens this season. I just hope that persimmons are fast-growers because I am 72 and don’t want to wait ten years.
Persimmons don’t root from cuttings. The only way to clonally propagate them is by grafting.
Hope you saved some scionwood for grafting. These are not gong to make it unfortunately.
I am aware it is an exercise in probable failure. But I have propigated many hard or not clonable plants successfully before. I would call 1 survivor a success. I have no persimmons to graft to. I just got my first whip at least a month after I got the cuttings. So I wanted to try. People told me that about peaches, apples, mulberry, pawpaw, some roses, dogwoods, and some more I am sure I am forgetting. It cannot hurt to try. Hard to root does not = impossible.
I put the cuttings in my 84 degree ancistrus pleco and guppy tank and they constantly keep the stems clean. I keep them mostly submerged in my 12” deep custom built 110 gallon (shallow wide) aquarium. With the tips only out of the water. I leave them there until they rot or the buds swell. Once the buds swell I move them to soil and out to an empty large aquarium “hot house” and leave them with a lid on. So far they are behaving how I hope. 
When I got them there were no buds, they were good and dormant. I moved them out this week when the buds began to really swell inside the warm aquarium water. To me even if it fails, this is what makes gardening fun. 
To date the most difficult plant to root from a tip cutting for me is blue spruce tree. I have tried over 200 times and only got one to take so far. That one is a real difficult plant. I have got every other type of tree at the Christmas tree farm to root from tip cuttings. This stupid lil tree represents my stubborn tenacity.
