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Items on chronicle sheets are allowed to break the usual rules on how you can buy items.
In other words, if it is on the chronicle sheet, you don't need Fame to buy it.
Additionally, there will be wands with less than 50 charges for a pro-rated cost.
So yes, the CL5 potion of enlarge person would work exactly like the pathfinder version of enlarge person cast by a 5th level caster.
I don't know why you need someone official to answer this, as there really isn't any reason to think it should work otherwise.
Regardless of the 3.0/3.5 mistake, it is currently still a CL5 potion of enlarge person and should work accordingly.
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Minimum CL is always clear. It's the lowest level needed to cast the spell. It looks like you are over-thinking the problem. That said, putting that potion on the Chronicle wasn't the smartest thing to do at the time.
Enlarge Person normally bought as a potion has a minimum CL of 1 (50 gp potion). This chronicle gives you the CL 5 (250 gp) (All it does in this case is make it last 5 minutes instead of 1, pretty usless in most cases). Is that worth a 200 GP difference? Probably not. If I were you and your players I would laugh at the chronicle sheet.
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Minimum CL is always clear. It's the lowest level needed to cast the spell. It looks like you are over-thinking the problem. That said, putting that potion on the Chronicle wasn't the smartest thing to do at the time.
Sure it was, back in 3.5, when the rules were different.
Enlarge Person normally bought as a potion has a minimum CL of 1 (50 gp potion). This chronicle gives you the CL 5 (250 gp) (All it does in this case is make it last 5 minutes instead of 1, pretty usless in most cases). Is that worth a 200 GP difference? Probably not. If I were you and your players I would laugh at the chronicle sheet.
Except it doesn't actually say that it's a CL 5 potion, you're just assuming that it is. He's not asking if it's an efficient use of resources, he's asking for clarification on which it really is: A CL1 overpriced potion, or a correctly priced CL5 potion. Laugh all you want, but maybe next time read the question all the way through so you aren't laughing alone. ;)
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Unfortuantely with the time between fight being a more abstract number, I would say that even at 50 rounds it would, most of the time, still be a one fight and done. That would of course be different if it was made apparent that you were pushing into the next fight to keep the Enlarge up. Generally, I assume that a single room sweep takes more than 5 minutes and a floor sweep probably takes more than an hour depending on the circumstances.
In other words it's something I'd expect some table variation on. I'm more than willing to admit that if you stayed in initiative rounds you would probably be right on with the 50 rounds last 2 or even 3 fights. However, I think most groups relax after they have taken the baddies out of a room. While they stay alert they tend to take their time on clean up. Again, I admit this is more my personal play style, but I'm willing to bet that there are others who do the same.
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Season 0 used 3.5 rules, and in 3.5 rules Enlarged person was priced at 250 gp (Even if it was an error).
So It is still listed using the 3.5 rules because all but one scenario have not as of yet been upgraded to PF RPG rules.
You will find a few other loot mistakes on Season 0 scenarios, example Gauntlets of Ogre Str which do not exist in PF.
I just ignore them and move on.
You won't see a correction to the chronicle sheet until it is upgrade to PF.
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During Season 0, potions of enlarge person were brewed by Thierry Peepence, a gnome wizard who set up her shop in the Coins district. Her version of the potion tasted like a dark ale, and it had the incidental effects of making the recipient just a little more ruggedly handsome, producing a gentle sea breeze that would waft the recipient's hair, and gave the recipient a temporary scent reminiscent of a mountain pine forest. They were high-quality potions, and came in distinctive dark-green bottles.
By Season 2, the market supplanted Thierry's potions with those of a trio of half-elf witches. Their potions cost only a fraction of the gnome's, and did only what they advertized: enlarged the drinker. For the vast majority of adventurers, with their "git 'er done" attitude, the new, cheaper potions enjoyed a much higher demand.
Thierry's potions are still available, for the pathfinders who are carefully retracing the adventuring sites from several years' past, but rarer than green slime teeth.
(Common scuttlebutt suggests that Thierry was surprised that her potions enlarged all of the recipient, and kept trying to fine tune the effects.)
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If you buy a potion that specifically mentions an effect that is different from the base, minimum caster level version of the spell, then you get those effects. The format of the sheets changed over the campaign's evolution, which is why they don't explicitly list caster level. Regardless, since the only way to get a potion of resist energy, cold for 30 points is at caster level 11th, then that's the caster level of that item. That is, as long as it costs 1,100 gp. If not then it's an error in the Chronicle sheet and likely something that will get that scenario added to the list of retirees.
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The caster level of any potion in PFS should be the minimum for the effect offered.
If you apply that rule to whatever is being offered (no matter the price listed, even if incorrect) then you can’t go wrong.
If the price is too cheap for the effect offered, then bonus. The chronicle gives you a discount on that item.
If the price is too high for the effect offered, then its likely you should buy it on the market. If you don’t have enough fame, then you can buy it for the additional cost on the chronicle.
I'm not a pfs player, and its been a while since I played 3.5, but I always understood the 3.5 potion of enlarge cost more be cause it was a full round spell in potion form. Though it seemed to not be explicitly said anywhere and this may have been a wrong assumption on my part.